Trecarten - Stanton Genealogy The PDF file below starts with a 1912 photograph of the Clemons - Stanton - Trecarten clan along with a few other names. Each is identified on the following page. The next pages show family trees for the Stanton and Trecarten generations. This account ends with four hand-written pages with details of how they arrived in Bartlett and information about their farms and residences. For this editor, it connects some familiar names with their ancestry. EDITOR'S NOTE: SOURCE: As I have previously mentioned, I have been collecting Bartlett History items for about 30 years. In a recent sorting of files I discovered the document you see below. I think it came to me from Dale Trecarten many years before his death.

The Seavey Ward House Oldest house in the village area This house is located across Rte 302 from the Village School Recreation field. An Update to this Story: MAY - 2026 Donna and Ruth Ward inherited this property from their father, Everett Ward, in 1973. From the 1950's until 1979 the Town of Bartlett operated the town dump on the northern section of the land adjacent to the Saco River. That usage has come back to bite both the Town and current owners with environmental concerns. The Conway Sun article below summarizes what's happening: BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN - May 2026 BARTLETT — The Carroll County Superior Court recently agreed to extend the pause of a case that was filed by a local family suing the town of Bartlett for $2.5 million. The case regards claims the town failed to address a former dump on private land that is eroding into the Saco River because the state of New Hampshire may come up with the money to fix the site. from fines it imposed on another landfill. During the winter, attorneys from the Iovino family and the town asked the Carroll County Superior Court to revisit the case in six months. Judge Mark Attorri signed off on the agreement Jan. 30. The court was to hold a status conference on May 7, but attorneys from both sides asked for more time. “Since the status conference on Jan. 29, 2026, there have been no substantive or material developments regarding progress on the Supplemental Environmental Project with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services,” state the attorneys in a motion to reschedule the status conference. “Counsel for the plaintiff and counsel for the defendants hereby assent to the requested continuance and to the rescheduling of the status conference.” On May 6, Clerk of Court Abigail Albee sent a notice of decision that the status conference would be postponed. It is now scheduled for July 2. The entrance to the old Bartlett dump is off Route 302 across from Bart’s Deli. The suit comes from a family that has owned the land for generations. “James Iovino, Trustee of the James W. and Donna M. Iovino Trust vs the Town of Bartlett” was filed in Superior Court on Oct. 15, 2024. “The town’s evasions and failures to abide by its promises and agreements were wanton, malicious, oppressive, recklessly indifferent and in disregard of the consequences to the plaintiff, motivated by ill-will and bad motive, and fundamentally an abuse of municipal power against a private citizen,” states the lawsuit filed by Jeremy Eggleton of Orr & Reno of Concord. Then, on Jan. 13, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced that North Country Environmental Services Inc., owner and operator of the NCES Landfill in Bethlehem, entered into an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Services to pay $1.9 million in civil penalties. “The settlement allows NCES to seek limited credit toward a portion of that penalty if it completes state-ap proved supplemental environmental projects (SEPs),” the state DOJ Environmental Protection Bureau told the Sun. “In this case, there are two potential SEPs: up to $219,000 for an engineering study of a former municipal landfill in Bartlett that is eroding into the Saco River, and a second, separate project for possible remediation, the scope and cost of which have not yet been determined and may not proceed. “The study is already underway; any remediation decision will be made after the study is complete,” it said, adding, “SEPs are selected based on existing environmental needs and are generally used where there is no practical or funded path to address a problem. “In Bartlett, the former landfill presents a long-term, worsening environmental issue, with no viable funding source to address it. Bartlett does not receive any money through the settlement; the work consists only of study and, potentially, remediation of the site,” the bureau said. The case had been stayed after the death of James Iovino at age 85 in January 2025. Donna Iovino , who inherited the property from her father, the late Everett Ward , in 1976, died in 2023. Her sons, Brett and Todd Tetley , will now serve as trustees of the trust as well as plaintiffs in the court case. In the 1940s or ’50s, Ward agreed to let the town use his property as a dump and charged the town rent. After his death in 1973, the dump continued to operate through 1979, though Donna Iovino and her then-husband, Vernon Tetley, wanted to see it closed sooner. “The town refuses to purchase the property, obtain financing for cleanup or otherwise do anything at all about the dump it operated for 35+ years,” the suit states. “The estimated total cleanup costs as of 2023 exceeded $2.5 million. The banks of the Saco continue to erode.” This article researched, compiled and offered to the Bartlett Historical Society by Ruth Ward Abbott . In 1994, the New Hampshire Division of Historical Inventory identified the Ward house as the only farm house from the early 1800 period of development which remains extant in the present village center. This homestead was declared the best preserved cape from this early period. The 3x5 bay, federal style center entry cape has a broad gable roof and center chimney. The windows are set close under the eaves. In the late 1800’s dormers were added over the long wing which historically contained carriage sheds and connected to the barn. Houses built in the early 1800’s had special characteristics such as external door hinges and latches. Sashes, framing and paneling were done with rough timber and wooden pegs. Cellar walls and foundations were of granite slabs. The Ward house of today exhibits all these characteristics. In 1820, Samuel Seavey and his son John moved from Deerfield, NH to Bartlett. They built a log cabin in the area which later became known as the Smith/Greenwood properties and began clearing the land. John and his wife, Polly B. Seavey lived in the cabin while the house and barn were under construction. In April, 1833 a daughter, Mary Frances was born. A second daughter, Susan Polly was born in August, 1835. The house was completed in 1837 and the Seavey family moved in. In 1850, Mary Frances married Nathan Howe French and they lived in the Seavey homestead while building their home across the street. Susan Polly married in 1865 to Amos Stanton. He was killed in the war. In 1875, Susan married Humphrey P. Richards and they lived in the Seavey homestead. Addie M. Foss, niece of Richards, married Fred J. Ward and in 1907, they inherited the house from Susan P. Richards. Fred and Addie Ward had five children; Alice, Marion, Irving, Everett and Merton. In 1931, Fred and Addie willed the house and properties to Everett in exchange for their “good being and all financial responsibilities”. In 1932 Everett (1910-1972) married Dorothy Dell Coleman (1915-2007) of Jackson, NH. They had two daughters, Ruth Sandra (1936) and Donna Mae (1942). For several years Dorothy operated a small business on the property specializing in balsam pillows and maple syrup products. Today, (Oct 2019) Donna Ward Iovino and her husband James reside in the oldest home in Bartlett village, the fifth generation to do so. Another Contender Contributed by Roger Marcoux. Although not a home per se, the oldest building in the village is the former jail on Albany Avenue, which was also Johnny Marcou's shop. He lived in it too, part of the time in the late 50's. Here is a photo of it back then, (looks the same now, but it is painted white) with my grandfather and grandmother Marcou and their dog posed in front of it. Sorry, I did not find a picture of the actual jail building but it's behind the Village fire house on Albany Avenue. That building behind it (shown above) which no longer exists, was his sawmill and he had some really scary saws in it as I recollect. Prior to this being the oldest , there was a small building next to the Chippanock Inn, across from today's Post Office on Main Street that held the honor, but it was torn down a few years ago. Johnny Marcou , in 1894, made his way down from Canada, and lived in Carroll NH . In 1901 Johnny's future wife made her way down from Canada from the same area, but they never met until Johnny, driving a stage coach, stopped at the Inn in Twin Mt where she worked. They got married had some kids, and eventually they moved to Livermore, had another kid, lived there for some time before finally moving to Bartlett, and having more kids. .

Hill Town Cemetery The Hill Cemetery is an enchanted little spot located on Upper West Side Road. It is approximately 2 miles from the Bartlett end of West Side Road. Many of the headstones appear to be exceptionally well cared for, or more likely, they have recently been replaced. These photos taken in 2010. Other times I have been there the maintenance has been better. Most stones are unreadable or covered in moss. CLICK ON THE STONE FOR A LARGER SIZE POP-UP That's West Side Road directly below the cemetery. When leaves are gone there is a nice view to the east and the river. Sarah Seavey 1854-1937 Nathan Hill 1858 - 1938 Eunice Ann Hill 1853 - 1928 Children Dorothy 1871 - 1873 Alice 1881 - 1898 John 1878 - 1938 CLICK ON THE STONE FOR A LARGER SIZE POP-UP ELSIE Wife of Lewis Abbott Formerly wife of Freeman Burbank Died 1891 Age 81 Yrs HILL Dorinda 1846 - 1934 Anna George 1864 - 1893 Cyrus E 1867 - 1936 HILL Husband - No Inscription Wife - Octavia 1878 - 1903 Alice CLICK ON THE STONE FOR A LARGER SIZE POP-UP JOHN - Son of Jacob Died ??18 Samuel Drown - died 1887 His wife is pictured below Samuel Drown was a prominent citizen of Bartlett. Married to Abigail Cook. Samuel William Drown was born on 4 April 1829, in Eaton, NH. His father, James Drouin, was 19 and his mother, Rachel Hill, was 21. He had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with Mary Abigail Cook. He died on 6 July 1887, in New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 58. The location overlooks the West Side Road. I can imagine 80 years ago, with fewer trees, it probably enjoyed a fine view down the valley and Saco River. The cemetery site is accessible by a small driveway however, be advised that exiting back onto West Side Road, the visibility is very poor. It might be wise to seek nearby parking and hike back to the driveway, or hike up the little hill pictured above. Samuel Abigail BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Rick Garon ‎ sent us this information about his Great Great Grandmother who lived on the West Side Road in the 1850's. His description below: "Don't know if this means anything, but these are picture of my great great grandmother, Mary Abigail Cook Drown, born in Porter, Maine in 1830 to William Cook and Abigail Bickford. She was the wife of Samuel William Drown. She died in 1923. One picture was taken of the house on West Side Road. Don't know who the child is. possibly my grandmother who was born in 1902. But there were other children of that age in the family at that time. Click on any picture for a larger size in a new window. Many older stones are difficult to read or completely moss covered. Those with a need to know can probably carefully scrape away the vegetation covering the name and date. Anchor 2 Anchor 3 Anchor 4 Anchor 5

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The Bartlett High School Class of 1940 Holds 20th Reunion at Bartlett, Where it all Began Raymond Hebb was instrumental in planning, organizing and preparing this 20th year event. He also wrote his "Memories of Growing-Up in Bartlett, 1922 to 1940" . Click the link to read it. Hulsman Lorne Beaconsfield Hulsman Birth 13 Apr 1881 Bear River, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada Death 1957 (aged 75–76) Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Burial Elm Street Cemetery Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Here we are graduating from Grammar School in 1936 1936 Grads Click on some pictures for a larger "pop-up". Freshman 1936 Bond Mallett Madeline Whitcher Harry Mallett and Ona Bond Where are we now? Twenty years later, 1960 Left to Right: Wanda Pennett - Ronald Pariseau, Pariseau Left to Right: Paul W. Knight - Harry E. Mallett Mallett Knight Left to Right: Laurence A. Murphy - Olive Sterling Nealley MurphyNealley Left to Right: Raymond M. Hebb - Albert L. Johnson Hebb Johnson Left to Right: Douglas R. Chandler - Richard A. Garland, Chandler doug Left to Right: Alma Chadbourne Rickards - James F. Chadbourne chadbournes Poppy whitcher Madeline "Poppy" Whitcher Balogh Garland OBIT Johnson Al Left to Right: Albert Johnson, Olive, Harold and JoEllen Nealley, Nealley Olive Harold JoEllen Pennett History Class History by Raymond Hebb (Editor guesses these were his notes for his oral presentation at the graduation ceremonies) Raymond Hebb was instrumental in planning, organizing and preparing this 20th year event. He also wrote his "Memories of Growing-Up in Bartlett, 1922 to 1940" . Click the link to read it.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Crawford Notch The Notch Discovery: In 1771 a Lancaster hunter, Timothy Nash, discovered what is now called Crawford Notch, while tracking a moose over Cherry Mountain. He noticed a gap in the distant mountains to the south and realized it was probably the route through the mountains mentioned in Native American lore. Packed with provisions, he worked his way through the notch and on to Portsmouth to tell Governor John Wentworth of his discovery. Doubtful a road could be built through the mountains, the governor made him a deal. If Nash could get a horse through from Lancaster he would grant him a large parcel of land at the head of the notch, with the condition he build a road to it from the east. Nash and his friend Benjamin Sawyer managed to trek through the notch with a very mellow farm horse, that at times, they were required to lower over boulders with ropes. The deal with the governor was kept and the road, at first not much more than a trail, was opened in 1775. Settlement: The Crawford family, the first permanent settlers in the area, exerted such a great influence on the development of the notch that the Great Notch came to be called Crawford Notch. In 1790 Abel Crawford, his wife Hannah (Rosebrook) and their growing family settled on the land granted to Sawyer and Nash, at what is now Fabyans in Bretton Woods. Two years later Eleazer Rosebrook, Hannah's father, and his family moved to Abel's homestead, who in turn, settled 12 miles away at the head of the notch in Hart's Location, for more "elbow room". Both families operated inns for the growing number of travelers through the notch. Abel's inn was the Mount Crawford House. The inn operated by the Rosebrooks' was inherited by Abel's son Ethan Allen . In addition to being established innkeepers, the Crawfords were famous mountain guides that escorted visitors to the top of Mt. Washington. In 1819 Abel and Ethan Allen opened the Crawford Path, the footpath they had blazed to the summit. By 1840 horses could be on the trail. In 1821 Ethan Allen blazed a shorter route up Mt. Washington that is closely followed today by the cog railway. Railroad: Increasing tourism to the White Mountains generated interest in the building of a railroad through Crawford Notch. The construction of the railroad was considered a difficult engineering feat that was thought to be impossible by many. The railroad, built by Anderson Brothers of Maine, was opened in 1857 and ran from Portland, through the notch, to Fabyans, the area where Ethan Allen had operated his inn. Great difficulties and expenses were encountered due to the gain of 1,623 feet in elevation in the 30 miles between North Conway and Fabyans. There is an average rise of 116 feet per mile for the 9 miles between Bemis Station at the south end of the notch and Crawford Depot. Impressive Frankenstein Trestle, originally built of wood, and later replaced by steel, is 80 feet high and 500 feet long, while the Willey Brook Bridge is 100 feet high and 400 feet long. Crawford Notch State Park: Most of the land in Crawford Notch was acquired by the state of New Hampshire in 1913. It was the result of a bill passed by the legislature in 1922 aimed at rescuing the northern region of Hart's Location from excessive timber harvest. The bill failed to include the northern, most scenic part of the notch, which the state purchased in 1912 for $62,000. Almost 6,000 acres are included in the state park. The land extends on both sides of the highway to the summits of the mountains that border the Saco River Valley. In 1922 the Willey House clearing was leased to Donahue and Hamlin of Bartlett who built a cabin colony of peeled spruce logs for vacationers. More log buildings were added including rest rooms, restaurant and gift shop, but eventually the state took back the clearing for its own operations. More Crawford Notch on Page 2 Willey Family: During the fall of 1825 Samuel Willey, Jr. of Bartlett moved into a small house in the heart of Crawford Notch with his wife, five children, and two hired men. The first year the three men enlarged and improved the house which the family operated as an inn to accommodate travelers through the mountains on the desolate notch road. The little cluster of buildings was situated in the shadow of what is now called Mount Willey. In June, following a heavy rain, the Willeys were terrified when they witnessed a great mass of soil and vegetation, torn loose from the mountainside across the river, slide in a path of destruction to the valley floor. As a result, Mr. Willey built a cave-like shelter a short distance above the house to which the family could flee if a slide threatened their side of the valley. During the night of August 28, 1826, after a long drought which had dried the mountain soil to an unusual depth, came one of the most violent and destructive rain storms ever known in the White Mountains. The Saco River rose twenty feet overnight. Livestock was carried off, farms set afloat, and great gorges were cut in the mountains. Two days after the storm, anxious friends and relatives penetrated the debris-strewn valley to learn the fate of the Willey family. They found the house unharmed, but the surrounding fields were covered with debris. Huge boulders, trees, and masses of soil had been swept from Mt. Willey's newly bared slopes. The house had escaped damage because it was apparently situated just below a ledge that divided the major slide into two streams. The split caused the slide to pass by the house on both sides leaving it untouched. Inside, beds appeared to have been left hurriedly, a Bible lay on the table, and the dog howled mournfully. Mr. and Mrs. Willey, two children, and both hired men were found nearby, crushed in the wreckage of the slide. The bodies were buried near the house and later moved to Conway. Three children were never found. The true story of the tragedy will never be known. Poets and writers have conjectured many possibilities. Perhaps the family, awakened by a threatening rumble, fled from the house to their cave, and were caught in one stream of the slide. It seems more likely the Willeys started to climb the slope of the mountain to escape the rising floods and were caught in the landslide. Whatever the circumstances of the tragedy, it has endowed this part of the White Mountains with a legend enhanced by the awesome crags which rise guardians over the site of the former Willey home. Following the tragedy, an addition was built onto the house which was operated as an inn until it burned in 1898. Source Material: NH State Parks Dept CRAWFORD'S TAVERN AT NOTCHLAND Railroad through the Notch Pulpit Rock was located near the top of the Notch. Able Crawford Portrait The "Notch House" in Crawford Notch was built by Ethan Allen Crawford and his father, Abel Crawford, in 1828. It was located west of Elephant's Head at the Gate of the Notch. The Willey House By John H. Spaulding 1862 The first goods brought up the Notch was a barrel of rum, which was given to Captain Rosebrook, by a merchant of Portland, on condition he would get it up through, the Notch. The captain made record, that after crossing the Saco river twenty-two times, with a horse and two poles, and several men, he succeeded in getting as much of the rum up as was not used in the enterprise. First produce carried down through the Notch was a barrel of tobacco, raised in Lancaster, by one Titus O. Brown. Thus, we see, rum and tobacco ranked here, where, among many good people of olden times, they were considered absolutely necessary, as first. But, thanks be to reformers, may the day not be far distant when an intemperate use of either shall be looked upon by the public, under the influence of moral persuasion, as an evil to be ranked in the same light with the follies of witchcraft! FIRST HOUSE IN THE NOTCH. The Willey House is the oldest building erected in the Notch. This was built in the year 1793, by a Mr. Davis, to accommodate the unfortunate storm-bound traveller, who, from curiosity, or on business, might dare the dangers of this wild pass. Then a little grassy meadow stretched along the bank of the Saco; tall rock-maples, and a towering mountain barrier, rose in the background from this little home of the pilgrim. How like a cool shadow of a great rock was this retreat among the frowning crags ! But the thundering avalanche came, and, since August 28th, 1826, the spirit of desolation has brooded over that fated spot. How lonely there is the dirge of the high wind, as it sweeps down that solitary chasm; and the wail of the sunset breeze, with the loud requiem of the on-rushing hurricane, is most mournful, for human bones are there palled in an avalanche's ruins.' Source: Historical relics of the White Mountains: Also, a concise White Mountain guide By John H. Spaulding 1862 Website Editor's note: The "Mr Davis" referred here may have been the father of Nathaniel Davis, who was the son in law of Abel and Hannah Crawford. Nathaniel Davis completed the Davis Path up Mt Crawford in 1845. Mt CrawfordHouse AbleHannah MtnGuides Sawyer Nash FAMCrawford WilleyCamps BrownTitus SamWilley1825 AndersonBrosRR Spaulding Slide AblePic Pulpit Bridge ParkState A railroad Station House for the section crew was erected in 1887 at the west end of the Willey Brook Trestle in Crawford Notch. It became better known for the family who lived there, Hattie and Loring Evans . They arrived in the summer of 1903 and set up housekeeping in the lonely wilderness. Loring and Hattie raised their four children here. Tragically, Loring was killed in 1916 when a train went the opposite of the way he anticipated. Hattie Stayed on until 1942 and raised the four children alone. The house was razed by the railroad in 1972. To read the entire story of the House and the Evans Family pick up the book "Life By The Tracks" by Virginia C. Downs published in 1984 EDITORS NOTE: One of our railroad experts, Bob Girouard, informs us that Loring Evans died on Thanksgiving day 1913. Related: Loring and Hattie Evans burial site. Pulpit Rock and the road through the Notch - 1870 Pulpit NotchHouse crawfordtavernPIC The Devils Den at Mt Willard Crawford Notch

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First settlers Bartlett NH 1780 to 1800 Hall and Pendexter families MORE EARLY SETTLERS - CLICK LOGO opens in new window The very early settlers of Bartlett 1780 to 1800 Page 3 Hall Early Settlers Stillings - Garland - Chubbick Emery - Pitman Hall - Pendexter - Tasker - Seavey George - Gilly - Fox - Willey BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 HallFam Summary of the Hall relationships Hon Obed - Farm in upper village - Obed Hall's Tavern in upper village. Obed - Son of Hon Obed - went into business in Portland Elijah - Son of Hon Obed - studied law and left town early on Abigail - Daughter of Hon Obed - never married - was a keen business woman in Portland Hannah - Daughter of Hon Obed - Married Benjamin Gould of Conway Center. He kept Tavern for many years Maria - Daughter of Hon Obed Mary and Martha - twin daughters of Hon Obed Caroline - daughter of Hon Obed First wife - 20 years older Second wife - 20 years younger - she was mother of the children. Ebenezer L.D. Hall - Brother of HON Obed - Revolutionary war soldier - taught school - County Probate Judge Obed Hall Esq of Tamworth was Ebenezer's son Jonathan - son of Ebenezer - Life long resident of Bartlett Lloyd L Hall - son of Jonathan - at book writing lived on hall ancestral land. Sarah A. Hall - daughter of Ebenezer L.D Hall married James H. Hall of Bartlett Elias Hall - Lived in various places - kept a toll bridge and the toll gate. ALPHA MERRILL HALL , proprietor of the Pleasant Valley Hall, (later the Bernerhof) at Bartlett, Carroll County, was born February 7, 1842, Jonathan Seavey Hall - Son of Elias - Built and operated the first Summit House Hotel on Mt Washington 1852 - Contractor for upper 4 miles of Carriage Road on Mt. Washington completed in 1861 - was a well respected Mountain Guide - may have been the first to ascend Mt Washington in winter. later moved to California where he built another mountain road and hotel. White Mountain History has written a lengthy article about Jonathan which you can find ( HERE .) Find More About the Hall ancestry on this page: HALL ANCESTRY In 1790 Obed Hall's Tavern was probably located at the junction of today's Bear Notch Road and Route 302, today's park. Travel at this time was hazardous and Tavern-keepers considered themselves benefactors to the traveling public rather than businessmen. Obed's Tavern was operated at various times by William White and Benjamin Gould. Obed came to Bartlett from Madbury as an early Bartlett pioneer who became a prominent citizen. He served as Selectman, Town Treasurer, and was elected to Congress in 1810. In 1819 he ran for the Senate but did not win that election. Read the Hall Ancestry Here Mr Hall was one of two appointed as Surveyors of Highways and he was among those who petitioned the General Court in 1793 for a tax of one penny per acre to be used for the improvement of roads within the town. Obed first married a woman 20 years his senior and second time a woman 20 years his Junior who mothered his children. After Obed's death his wife moved to Portland Maine and re-married to Richard O'Dell. In addition to the Tavern Mr Hall also tended a large farm which was located partially on the property that is today's Sky Valley Motel. It was probably 100 acres or more. It was thought that he also operated a lodging establishment at the farm. Joseph Seavey Hall, son of Ebenezer was a major element in the white mountains, starting as a well respected mountain guide. He married a Crawford and was in business with a Rosebrook. He was the builder of the first wood constructed summit house on Mount Washington in 1852. It preceded The Tip Top House - built of stone - in 1853. Joseph Seavey Hall was also the lead contractor to build the upper four miles of the carriage road to the top of the mountain, completing it in 1861. Hall sold his Mt. Washington hotels and joined in the Civil War. At the war’s end, he moved to California, found another mountain, built a road up it and then built a hotel at its summit. Joseph Seavey Hall of Bartlett was one of the most important participants in mid-nineteenth century events in Crawford Notch (or the White Mountain Notch as it was known in those days) and on Mt. Washington. Yet most people have never heard of him. Read the Story at the White Mountain History web site, HERE .) Elias Hall lived in various places, he was a toll collector on the Tenth NH Turnpike through Crawford Notch as well as keeping a toll bridge. An uncle, or perhaps his grandfather, Judge Obed Hall of Bartlett, was one of the major investors, and an officer, of the Tenth NH Turnpike Corporation . Elias later removed to Jefferson where he died. ALPHA MERRILL HALL , proprietor of the Pleasant Valley Hall, (later the Bernerhof) at Bartlett, was born February 7, 1842, in that town, which was also the birthplace of his father, Elias M. Hall , and of his grandfather, Elias Hall. ancestor, lived to the ripe old age of four score, was four times married, and had a family of eighteen children. Elias M. Hall spent his entire life of seventy-seven years in Bartlett, being engaged in farming and carpentry. He was highly respected in the community, and at one time represented his town in the State Legislature. He married Clarinda J. Stillings, a daughter of Samuel Stillings, of Bartlett. Alpha Merrill Hall was educated in the district schools of Bartlett, spending his early life on the parental homestead. Subsequently he followed the carpenter's trade and also engaged in agriculture, and is now the owner of a good-sized farm, from which he cuts annually a large volume of timber. In 1898 he built the Pleasant Valley House , which is finely located and contains eight rooms, with baths and various modern improvements. He is a member of the local Grange. - Mr. Hall married, first, in January, 1869, Maria C. Charlotte (Dearing) Emery, daughter of Ruben and Charlotte (Dearing) Emery . Of this union there was one child, Herbert A., born May 18, 1870. . Mr. Hall married, second, March 12, 1874, Abbie Chase, daughter of Rufus Chase, of Madison, N. H. By her he has one child, Rufus M ., born August 2, 1877, who lives with his parents. The Hall family has been distinguished and prominent. Hon. Obed Hall, from Madbury, early had a fine farm in Upper Bartlett, and his house was a popular house of entertainment. He was a man of medium size and fine presence, and of great ability. He was member of Congress in 1811, and for many years his influence was potent in affairs. An old resident says: Ezra Keniston now resides on the place where was his home." Obed Hall had the smartest family ever raised in Bartlett, and the best-looking girls. His son Obed went into business in Portland; Elijah studied law and left town early. Abigail, a daughter, never married, but engaged in business in Portland and was a keen business woman. Hannah married Benjamin Gould , of Conway Centre. He kept tavern for a long time. The other children were: Maria, Mary and Martha (twins), and Caroline. His first wife was twenty years older than he, and his second wife was twenty years younger than he. She was mother of the children. After Mr. Hall's death she married Richard Odell, and took the children with her to Portland." Ebenezer L. D. Hall, a Revolutionary soldier, was a brother of Judge Obe d Hall, and was a man of unusual education and business qualities. He taught school, and was popularly known as "Master" Hall. He filled various town offices with ability, and on the death of Dr Willson in 1811 was appointed judge of probate of Coos county, of which Bartlett was a part at that time, and held the office until 1829. Judge James W. Weeks writes of him: "Mr. Hall was very popular as judge of probate. He was a farmer, and a man of influence. His manners were most courtly, and he possessed extremely kind feelings. Widows and orphans could trust their interests in his hands with perfect safety." OBED HALL Esq. 1795 -1873 was son of Hon. Ebenezer L. and Lydia (Dinsmore) Hall ; born, Conway, February 23, 1795 ; (Ebenezer was Obed 1st's brother) practiced, Bartlett and Tamworth ; died, Tamworth, May 21, 1873. In the war of 1812 Ebenezer Hall was in the military service for a short time, in a company of militia at Portsmouth. His early education was imperfect, and he studied law three years with Enoch Lincoln of Fryeburg, Maine, and two years with Lyman B. Walker of Meredith. He first set up in practice at Bartlett, and about 1820 changed his residence to Tamworth. He was representative in the legislature in 1840 and 1841, in which latter year he was appointed register of Probate for the new county of Carroll. That post he occupied ten years. In 1854 and 1856 he was a state senator.He was a lawyer of respectable acquirement's , but preferred to give his time and attention to politics, which did not conduce to his legal progress nor to his pecuniary profit. He gave much attention to his farm, being partial to agriculture. He was public-spirited, and in private life benevolent and kindly.His first wife was Elizabeth Gilman of Tamworth, who bore him one daughter; his second was Caroline E. , daughter of John Carroll of Maine. She left him a daughter, who outlived her father. SOURCE: The bench and bar of New Hampshire: including biographical notices ... By Charles Henry Bell Editors Note: Sorry for the lacks of pictures to go with this information. Apparently all these folks forgot to bring along their mobile phone camera. Find More About the Hall ancestry on this page: HALL ANCESTRY HallTavrn JS Hall Pendexter PendexFam 1776 Hon John Pendexter - arrived from Portsmouth NH Martha Jackson Pendexter - wife Samuel Pendexter - youngest son of Hon John and Martha - 1794 to 1883 - stayed on family homestead his entire life - Married Lydia T Meserve Joseph Pendexter - son of John and Martha - 1786 - 1855 - married Lydia Dinsmore - lived on the future site of the Langdon House - farmer Joseph's Children Solomon Dinsmore Pendexter - 1813 - 1868- married cousin, Mary Davis Meserve - farmer & Innkeeper near the future Langdon House named simply "The Solomon Pendexter House- killed by falling tree branch - two sons, John Langdon & Joseph - they died at age 19 and 24 respectively Samuel's Children - Silas M - died 1883 Betsey M - never married - died 1864 Charles Carroll - 1828 to 1881 - studied to be a surveyor - opened the family homestead as an Inn in 1874 as the Pendexter Mansion. He and his wife, Caroline Gale Pendexter operated the Inn alone tending to all it's associated duties. A much more thorough accounting of their lives may be found at Georgia Drew Merrill's book - The History of Carroll County - 1889. Starting on page 934 Here is a link to it. Pendexter THE PENDEXTER FAMILY. liketh the wilderness to bud and blossom like the rose." They made their home on the Intervale a century and more ago than they knew. Little did they think when in the bitter cold Town of Bartlett. They traveled the Long, weary miles from Portsmouth and Lee to this then almost uninhabited section, where the primeval forests were standing in all their Loftiness, where the solemn, grand, mysterious mountains seemed like sentinels to guard the way, where the wild beasts were Lurking in their fastnesses, that they were Laying the foundation of what will be a veritable garden of Eden. The Pendexters are of Norman-French origin, and were originally from the Isle of Jersey and of noble birth, the name being spelled Poingdestre. Arms: "Per less azure and or, in chief a dexter hand clenched with a cuff of gold, in base a mullet of azure. Crest, an esquires helmet. Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit." Hon. John Pendexter and his wife Martha (Jackson) Pendexter were among the first settlers of Lower Bartlett. They came from Portsmouth, NH, probably in the winter of 1775 and 1776. Mr Pendexter resided in the town until his death, at the age of eighty-three, honored and respected. Mrs Pendexter was his fitting companion and helpmate, and worked in all ways to make their home comfortable and pleasant. She died aged ninety-two. Here in this beautiful spot they experienced many joys and sorrows: here then dispensed a generous hospitality; and here, after active and useful Lives, the evening shadows fell, and night came upon them. The following sketch of John Pendexter and genealogical record is contributed by Hon. Edward F. Johnson, mayor of Woburn, Mass.: ••John Pendexter first built a house and barn on the Intervale, and it was there his first child. Alice, was born. The location of these buildings was some five hundred feet south of the present highway to Jackson, and to the right of the driveway leading from Mrs C. C. Pendexter's farm across the railroad, down to the Intervale. A sweet-brier bush is growing near the site. The uprisings of the Saco and some of its tributary streams soon warned Mr Pendexter of the dangerous situation of his homestead; and about 1777, he removed his family to higher ground and built the nucleus of the large family residence now known as the Pendexter mansion. Here all his children but Alice were born, and in it .John Pendexter the father, Samuel Pendexter the son. and Charles Pendexter the grandson, its successive owners, have all lived and died. "At the first town-meeting of Bartlett, John Pendexter was chosen first selectman, and re-chosen the next year. He was also elected surveyor of high- ways, an office which he held for many years. In 1795 he was chosen treasurer and also chairman of a special committee appointed to lay out roads in the new town. In 1801 and in 1805 he was elected moderator and first selectman. In 1803 he was chosen chairman of a committee to sit in a convention to be held in Conway relative to a new county.' In 1806 and for several years thereafter he held important county offices; in 1820 he was chief justice of the History of Carroll County. The official responsibilities and honors thus conferred upon testimonials of his worth and abilities. appearance Mr Pendexter was about five feet ten inches and muscular. Mr Willey speaks of him as a man. who for years was especially useful in the region.' He was a very hard-working man all his life, and he would be at his work at sunrise, although it miles away from home. Self-reliant and thoroughly independent, a man of great executive ability, and one who could brook no opposition proper behests and commands. Among his family and with his employee's his word was absolute law. He enforced a strict observance of the Sabbath-day in his household, and was a very earnest, conscientious Christian. . Samuel Pendexter lived to follow to their last resting places, father, mother, brothers and sisters, wife and children, but his declining years were cheered and comforted by the widow of his son Charles. whom he loved as if she was his own child, and who reverenced, honored, and cherished him with the tender, watchful care of a daughter. Mr Pendexter inherited many of his parents' excellences. Like his father, he was an honest and industrious man. He also had his mother's loving' and cheerful nature. He was social and kindly, but quiet and rather reserved with strangers: a Democrat in polities and firm in adherence to principle. By his industry and prudence he accumulated a handsome property: by his uniform kindness he gained friends; by faithfulness in the performance of every duty entrusted to him he won honor and respect from all. He held many positions of trust; was a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. In respect to his manliness, all that was said was the great poet of an honest man maybe said of him, - the noblest work of God." To this there could be no dissent. "His religious life was a life of devotion to the cause of God lord more than sixty years, always abounding in the work of the Lord." He retained his youthful appearance and physical strength very remarkably, being able to attend church frequently in his eighty-eighth year, and but a few- weeks before his death. Charles Carroll Pendexter Samuel Pendexter Hon. John Pendexter and wife, Martha, came from Portsmouth at an early period, and settled in the south part of the town, near Conway. With his wife he traveled eighty miles in winter, she riding on a feeble old horse with a feather-bed under her, a child in her arms, and he by her side drawing a hand-sled, on which were their household goods. The Pendexter Mansion occupied the site near the Scenic Vista that now contains the Cathedral Ledge Condominium complex. In 1874, Charles and Caroline Pendexter's opened their homstead as an Inn, first simply called the Pendexter House and later the Pendexter Mansion. By 1885 Charles had died and Caroline continued operating the Inn on her own. By 1905 Caroline had remarried to Parkman Drown, a former employee. They had added tennis courts, an overflow building called The Annex and boasted of a 100 acre farm that provided nearly all their food stocks and dairy cows. By the 1920's business had declined due to increasing competition and Caroline died in 1924. Her husband, Parkman, continued along until 1932. After his death the property fell into the hands of one of his relatives but in the 1950's was sold to Jeff Foley who re named it to the Region House. Eventually Foley sold the land across the street for condominiums and the land behind for development. The building was resold to Anthony Abry who promptly changed the name to Skirolean Lodge, which was to be it's final commercial use. Within a few years the doors were closed forever. It had escaped fire which had destroyed so many others but was razed to make way for a Chinese restaurant and later by the Cathedral Ledge Condominiums, which as of 2019 are still occupying the space. Seavey This article researched, compiled and offered to the Bartlett Historical Society by Ruth Ward Abbott. The Historic Seavey Ward House Tasker The Tasker family was located in Bartlett in the late 1700’s, possibly settling there between 1780-1790. Previous extensive research has been done and is provided at this link. PendexMansion Region Seavey Ward House Tasker Samuel, Simon, and Jonathan Seavey lived in the east part near Kearsarge. Their descendants are in Conway. Frank George married Mary, daughter of Ithamar Seavey, of Conway, belonging to this family. I will dig up some more information eventually. Early Settlers Stillings - Garland - Chubbick Emery - Pitman Hall - Pendexter - Tasker - Seavey George - Gilly - Fox - Willey Sources: Eastern Slope Signal newspaper 1965 The Latchstring was Always Out - Aileen Carroll - 1994 Bartlett NH - Aileen Carroll - 1990 The History of Carroll County - Georgia Drew Merrill - 1889 Sources: Incidents in White Mountain history - by Rev. Benjamin G. Willey https://www.ancestry.com › genealogy › records › levi-chubbuck_91882748 "The History of Carroll County", 1889, Georgia Drew Merrill brooklyncentre.com › trees › getperson Bartlett NH - In the Valley of the Saco - Aileen Carroll - 1990 Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains - circa 1860 REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF The State of New Hampshire • BOSTON - NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 15 COURT SQUARE 1902 Just a few notes I'm keeping for now The Pendexter Mansion about three minutes walk to the north of the station, is one of the most charming houses in this section. It, too, commands an unobstructed view of the Intervale and the mountains around it. This house, which accommodates fifty guests, was built by Mrs. C. C. Pendexter in 1872, and has always remained under her excellent management, and maintained a reputation for being homelike. An addition was made to the cottage in 1886, and other recent improvements serve to render this mansion attractive; many of its rooms are heated and the house is open the year round. Its winter night suppers for sleighing parties are famous. For regular boarders it is open from the first of May until the last of October. Samuel and Joseph. Isaac, George, and Robert Stanton lived in the Hall neighborhood, just below Ebenezer Tasker's. Richard Garland lived just above Ebenezer Tasker on the main road. There is no house on the farm. Levi Rogers lives just above. Joseph Seavey moved to New York. Elijah Seavey settled below Judge Hall. He had three daughters. Lavina married Walker George; Eliza married John Wentworth; Lucy married John George. Austin George came early from Conway and settled the farm where his son, Benjamin F., lived so many years, and now occupied by Frank George. He was an active and useful man. Peter Stillings lived below the village on the road to Judge Hall's. Samuel Stillings was the farthest resident in the upper part of the town. William White paid Judge Hall seventeen hundred dollars in money for his farm, about a mile below Hall's tavern, and it was the finest one in that part of the town. His son William went to Canada, took part in the Rebellion of 1837, returned, and died in Conway. Source: History of Carroll County, NH, edited by Georgia Drew Merrill, 1889 Transcribed by: Helen Coughlin James Rogers and sons, Daniel, Joshua, and Jonathan, lived across the Saco from Judge Hall. Samuel Fall lived near neighbor to Obed Hall. O ne of his daughters, Rebecca, married Samuel Parker, the miller: another, Judith, married an Allard and had two . Samuel and Joseph. Isaac. George, and Robert Stanton lived in the Hall neighborhood, just below Ebenezer Tasker's. Richard Garland lived just above Ebenezer Tasker on the main road. There is no house on tlie farm. Lives just above. Joseph Seavey moved to New York. Elijah ettled below Judge Hall. He had three daughters. Lavina married Eliza married John Wentworth ; Lucy married John George. ■tin G ame early from Conway and settled the farm where his son, niM.'i !•'.. Lived so many years, and now occupied by Frank George. He " ; ""1 useful man. Peter Stillings lived below the village on the o Judge Hall's. Samuel Stillings was the farthest resident in the upper own. William White paid Judge Hall seventeen hundred dollars rm, about a mile below Hall's tavern, and it was the finest tie town. His soll William went to Canada, took part in the Rebellion of 1837, returned, and died in Conway. Anchor 3

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Share The Village Area of Bartlett Page 3 "Over the River" River Street Bridge - Probably 1900 . Check out the two people on the bridge, one with a yellow coat and top-hat. The other person looks to be wearing a red union suit (underwear) and black boots. Upper Bartlett Glen Area Cooks Crossing Goodrich Falls Jericho Intervale Dundee West Side Road Kearsarge RiverStBridge Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 Another early view of the River Street bridge. Note the fence on the right indicating cows or horses were kept there. The cave on Cave Mountain is clearly visible. River Street Bridge and Big Rock swimming hole. Date is about 1920. Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 bridge1967 demo June to October 1967: The iron River Street bridge is demolished and replaced with a modern bridge design. Cave Mountain CobbFarmRoad Cobb Farm Road - Bartlett - Looking East. In the days when plowing was not a priority. House belonged to Jim Connors, the next house would be Katherine Dorset. Photo Courtesy Maureen Hussey Mid 1940's Cobb Farm Road. The G.K. Howard farmhouse. That's Donna Chappee all bundled up. She was born in this house October 24, 1939. G.K.Howard (1864-1949) operated a farm in this area and I was told this house was part of the 93 acre farm. G.K. Howard gave the property to James M. Howard when James returned from World War 2. James and wife Dorothy originally lived on River Street but later built a house at the west end of the property where they lived out their lives. In addition to the Chappee's, the house was home to Ninna McGraw, Gordon Treffey and the Bellerose families to name just a few over the 1940 to 1960 decades. It was said, "the snow blew through the walls there!" Cobb Farm Road - Bartlett - Looking West. The buildings are today's (2018) Katherine Dorset house. This photo is dated 1906. If you grew up in Bartlett anytime before the 1990's you will definitely remember swimming at 2nd Iron . These photos are from about 1950. 2ndIron Stanton Slope 1940 See More stanton The end of the Cobb farm road the mersereau farm in 1965 This drawing by Mike Eisner shows his Cousin, Judi Eisner Mersereau at the popularly known Cobb Farm in 1965. However, at this time, the farm was the domain of the Mersereau's. After passing by the 2nd Iron swimming hole, within a mile, one would arrive at this spot where the road ended and the farm began. The barns are long gone but the house behind the tree is still there today (2022). Old maps (1890's) show a bridge across the Saco River near this spot which connected to today's Route 302 in Harts Location. Village Area Page 1 Village Area Page 2 Village Area Page 3 Village Area Page 4 Village Area Page 5 mersereau Opal Eastman writes what appears to be a letter to the editor. While it is undated, a few hints place it in the 1980's. She does a remarkable job of describing the people and places of what is known as "Over the River". Explicitly, the area from the River Street bridge to the end of the road in both directions. Click the PDF logo to read it. This card is titled "Silver Springs Falls" and dated 1919. I don't think this exists quite like this anymore. Falls

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , The Bartlett Boulder This boulder was formerly a tourist attraction. It is now somewhat difficult to find or visit as it is in a residence back yard. A hint is that it's opposite the Glen Warehouse/Allen Road. I don't know if they approve of folks traipsing around their back yard? It was glacially transported, and as the ice melted was lowered onto four smaller boulders. It is approximately 3.7 m wide. The area was covered entirely by continental ice at the peak of the Wisconsin Glaciation, ca. 20,000 years ago (Goldthwait, 1939; Thompson, 1999 ). Bedrock surfaces exhibit glacial striations and asymmetric erosional features recording overrunning of ice from the northwest to the southeast (Goldthwait, 1970; Fowler, 1971). ... The glacial geology of the White Mountains in New Hampshire has been the subject of many investigations since the 1840's. A series of controversies evolved during this period. First was the question of what geologic processes were responsible for eroding the bedrock and depositing the cover of surficial sediments. By the 1860's, the concept of glaciation replaced earlier theories invoking floods and icebergs. Research in the late 1800's concerned the relative impact of continental versus local glaciation. Some workers believed that surficial deposits in northern New Hampshire were the product of valley glaciers radiating from the White Mountains, but in the early 1900's continental glaciation was established as the most important process across the region. Debate over the extent and timing of alpine glaciation in the Presidential Range has continued until recent years. The most intensely argued topic has been the manner in which the Late Wisconsinan ice sheet withdrew from the White Mountains: whether by rapid stagnation and downwastage, or by progressive retreat of a still-active ice margin. The stagnation model became popular in the 1930's and was unchallenged until the late 1900's. Following a research hiatus lasting over 40 years, renewed interest in the glacial history of the White Mountains continues to inspire additional work. REFERENCE: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271178735_History_of_research_on_glaciation_in_the_White_Mountains_New_Hampshire_USA That's about all I know about it. If you have something to add just send me a quick email using the link below.

Paleo Indians to the Abenaki Beginnings - Paleo-Indians to the Abenaki Paleo Indians were here 11,300 years ago We current residents and our ancesters are still "newbies" in the broader historical perspective. Other folks lived here long before us. Paleo-indians were living in this area about 11,300 years ago (9,300 BCE). Small groups of families migrated seasonally to hunt and gather various floras, gradually moving about along the waterways and primitive trails. Their way of life was successful, and so the population grew. There is debate about how these early people got here, but many Native Americans believe that their ancient ancestors originated on this continent. One clue is that Abenaki and other Native American creation stories are rooted in the American environment and not elsewhere. Family groups lived in rock outcroppings or shelters made of saplings or, perhaps, mastodon bones covered with animal skins. They used stone tools such as chert and quartzite, which were durable enough to cut through animal skin and bone, but brittle enough to be chipped into sharp-edged tools. This material was plentiful in New Hampshire and Vermont. Part of their seasonal migrations were for trading purposes. Chert from as far away as Maine and New York and jasper from Pennsylvania have been found in Vermont. Tools made from Vermont stones have been found from Massachusetts to Maine. Paleoindian sites that have been excavated in Ludlow and East Highgate Vermont help us understand the Paleo-indian way of life. Tools show that they fished and gathered plants, but hunting seemed more important since tools found were more suited to hunting big land animals than marine animals. Paleoindians ate a lot of caribou because they were abundant. By about three thousand years ago, a new Woodland culture was thriving. Analysis of archaeological sites along the rivers and lakes help us understand the lives of these early peoples. Abenaki Life: 1600 The Abenaki of the Late Woodland period were part of a larger Wabanaki group that extended throughout most of Vermont, into Quebec, and included all of New Hampshire and Maine. In Vermont, the western Abenaki divided themselves into three major bands: Missiskoik (in the Champlain Valley) and Sokwaki and Cowasuck (in the Connecticut River Valley). By the Late Woodland period, extensive settlements existed in all of Vermont's lake and river valleys. SOURCE MATERIAL ABOVE: Flow of History c/o Southeast Vermont Community Learning Collaborative Brattleboro, VT 05302 Visit their web site for a wealth of information from which these snippets were derived: http://www.flowofhistory.org/index.php SOURCE MATERIAL BELOW: The White Mountains: a handbook for travellers: a guide to the peaks, passes ... edited by Moses Foster Sweetser 1886 When the first English explorers reached the shores of New England, they found a strong confederacy existing between the various Indian tribes of Maine and New Hampshire, which were then populous and powerful. The headship of this union was vested in the chief of the Penobscot tribe, who bore the title of Baahdba. Soon after the year 1614, however, several war-parties of Tarratine Indians from Acadia advanced stealthily into the Penobscot country, and surprised the royal town at night. The Bashaba and his chief warriors and councillors were slain while fighting, and the power of the Penobscots and the union of the tribes were broken together. According to Sir Ferdinando Gorges's Description of New England, a terrible state of anarchy and civil war ensued, the chief sagamores battling with each other for supremacy, while against the divided league foreign enemies made successful campaigns. The valiant Tarratines marched mercilessly throughout the country of the Bashaba, shattering the power of the isolated tribes, and sending their fleets even as far as the Massachusetts coast, where the Indians of Ipswich were harried by a fierce naval foray. " The strong fought for supremacy, the weak for existence. There was no necessity for the war-song or the war-dance. Every brave was compelled to enlist whether he would or not. The signal-fire gleamed on the hill-top. The war-whoop was heard in the valley. New England, before nor since, never saw such carnage within her borders." The destruction of the villages and their deposits of provisions, and the impossibility of tillage or hunting, catised a wide-spread and desolating famine to fall upon the tribes, already in process of extermination by battle and ambush. In company with the universal war and famine came a mysterious pestilence, which broke out in 1616 on the coast and spread inland in every direction with fatal swiftness. Entire villages were depopulated, and tribes were blotted out This visitation lasted for three summers, and swept away the strength of all the northern peoples. Morton tells, in his New English Canaan, that the bones and skulls that he saw throughout the Massachusetts district made the country seem " a newfound Golgotha." After the passage of the pestilence and the famine, the remnants of the thirteen tribes of the Connecticut Valley and the White-Mountain region formed a new confederation, designed to resist the Mohawks on the W. and the Tarratines on the E. The noble Passaconaway, formerly a valiant warrior and chieftain, now a venerable and sagacious sagamore of Pennacook, was appointed Bashaba. The Indians of New Hampshire belonged to the Abenaqui nation, and were called Nipmucks, or fresh-water people, from Nipe, " pond," and mike, "place." They were divided into 13 tribes, each with its semiindependent chief. The Nashuas lived on the river of that name (meaning " pebbly-bottomed "); the Souhegans occupied the Souhegan Valley (Swheganash means "worn-out lands"); the Amoskeagswere about Manchester (deriving their name from namaos, "fish," and mike, "place"); the Pennacooks were at Concord (from pennaqui, " crooked," and auke, "place"); the Squamscotts were about Exeter (from asquam, "water," and auke, "place"); the Xewichawannocks were on Salmon-Falls River (from nee, "my," week, "wigwam," and owannock, "come"); the Pascataquaukes were toward Dover and Portsmouth (from pot, "great," ..-//."/, " deer," and auke, " place "). " The eighth tribe built a wigwam city at Ossipee Lake (cooash, 'pines,' and sipe, 'river'), and they were the cultivated Ossipees, with mounds and forts like more civilized nations. A ninth built flourishing villages in the fertile valley of the Pequawket River (now Saco, — from pequawkis, 'crooked,' and auke, 'place'), and were known as the pious Pequawkets, who worshipped the great Manitou of the cloud-capped Agiochook. A tenth had their home by the clear Lake Winnepesaukee, and were esteemed ' the beautiful Winnepesaukees.' An eleventh set up their lodges of spruce bark by the banks of the wild and turbulent Androscoggin River, and were known as ' the death-dealing Amariscoggins' (from namaos, 'fish,' kees, 'high,' and auke, 'place'). A twelfth cultivated the Coos intervales on the Connecticut, and were called 'the swift deer-hunting Coosucks' (from cooash, 'pines,' auke, 'place')." The thirteenth were the Pemigewassets. On Father Ducreux's Latin map of 1GGO, the Abenaqui nation occupies all the country between the Kennebec and Lake Champlain, including the upper waters of the Androscoggin (Fiuvius Aininvocontiits) and Saco (C/ioacotius Fluvius). " Most of the Northward Indians are between five and fix Foot high, straight Body'd, strongly composed, smooth Skin'd, merry Countenanc'd, of Complexion more swarthy than the Spaniards, black Haired, high Foreheaded, black Ey'd, out-Nof'd, broad Shoulder'd, brawny Arm'd, long and slender Handed, out Breafted, small Wasted, lank Belly'd, well Thigh'd, flat Kneed, with handfome brown Legs, and small Feet : In a word, take them when the Blood skips in their Veins, when the Flesh is on their Backs, and Marrow in their Bones, when they frolick in their antique Deportments and Indian postures, they are more amiable to behold (though onely in Adam's Li-very) than many a trim Gallant in the newest Mode; and though their Houses are but mean, their Lodging as homely, Commo'nsfcant, their Drink Water, and Nature their best Clothing, yet they full are healthful and lofty." (ogilby's America.) After the abdication of Passaconaway, in 1660, his son Wonnalancet succeeded to the chieftaincy. According to the Puritan fathers, he was "a sober and grave person, of years between 50 and 60. He hath been always loving and friendly to the English." The Apostle Eliot visited him in May, 1674, and preached from the parable of the King's son, after which the Sachem embraced Christianity in a beautiful allegorical address. He lived a pure and noble life, and restrained his warriors from attacking the colonists, even during the deadly heats of King Philip's War. After that struggle, he visited the frontier town of Chelmsford, and asked the minister if it had suffered from attacks. The Puritan answered, "No, thank God." " Me next," rejoined Wonnalancet. At a later day he found it impossible to restrain his people from open hostilities, upon which he gave up the chieftaincy, and retired, with the few families who adhered to him, to St. Francis, on the St. Lawrence River, far away from the crash of war and the undisariminating fury of the English forays. He returned to the Merrimac Valley in 1696, but stayed only a short time, finally retiring to St. Francis, where he died. When Wonnalancet retired, in 1685, Kancamagus, the grandson of Passaconaway, assumed the government. He made several attempts to retain the friendship of the English, as is seen in his letters to Gov. Crandall, but was slighted and ill-treated by them, and finally yielded to the impulses of the martial and patriotic party in the confederation. He organized and headed the destructive attack on Dover in 1686, which was the last terrib'e death-throe of the Pennacooks ; and was present at the signing of the truce of Sagadahoc, in 1691. He then vanishes from history, and it seems probable that he led the feeble remains of his people to the Abenaqui city of refuge at St. Francis. " Kancamagus was a brave and politic chief, and in view of what he accomplished at the head of a mere remnant of a once powerful tribe, it may be considered a most fortunate circumstance for the English colonists, that he was not at the head of the tribe at an earlier period, before it had been shorn of its strength, during the old age of Passaconaway, and the peaceful and inactive reign of Wonnalancet. And even could Kancamagus have succeeded to the Sagamonship ten years earlier than he did, so that his acknowledged abilities for counsel and war could have been united with those of Philip, history might have chronicled another story than the inglorious death of the Sagamou of Mount Hope in the swamp of Pokanoket." (potter's Hist, of Manchester.) The northern tribes of the confederation remained in their ancestral homes for some years longer, under the government of their local chiefs, but were nearly annihilated by military expeditions from the New England towns. (See Fryebury, Plymouth, etc.) They then migrated to Canada, and after their mournful exodus the Saco and Pemigewasset Valleys were opened to the settlers from the lower towns. "Thus the aboriginal inhabitants, who held the lands of New Hampshire as their own, have been swept away. Long and valiantly did they contend for the inheritance bequeathed to them by their fathers ; but fate had decided against them, and it was all in vain. With bitter feelings of unavailing regret, the Indian looked for the last time upon the happy places where for ages his ancestors had Iived and loved, rejoiced and wept, and passed away, to be known no more forever." Concerning Passaconaway, the Great Chief of the Mountain and Merrimac Indiani. The name Passaconaway is derived from two Indian words, papoeis, " child," and kunnaway, " bear," the Child of the Bear being a fitting chief for the tribes whose ancestral insignia was a mountain-bear. It is estimated that the Merrimae tribes had 3,000 warriors in the year 1600, but the annihilating successions of famine, pestilence, and pitiless invasions of hostile tribes reduced their number, in less than 20 years, to 250 men. There is a tradition that the Mohawks attacked Concord not long before the year 1620, and inflicted terrible damage on the Pennacooks; and a subsequent foray of the western tribes of Passaconaway's league 'ito the land of the Mohawks resulted disastrously. Passaconaway was probably at the head of the Pennacook confederation before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth; and Captain Levitt reported having seen him in 1623. In 1629 he and his sub-chiefs granted the coast of New Hampshire to John Wheelwright; and in 1632 he sent in to Boston a culprit Indian who had killed an English trader. In 1642 Massachusetts despatched a strong force to disarm the friendly Pennacooks; but Passaconaway retired to the forest, and there received a just apology from the colonial authorities, after which he voluntarily surrendered his guns. In 1644 he put his " subjects Lands and estates under the Government and Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts to be governed and protected by then." From this time the forest emperor and mighty necromancer became nominally a sort of Puritan magistrate, administering the laws of the colony upon his astonished liegemen. In 1647 Passaconaway was visited by the Apostle Eliot ("one of the noblest spirits that have walked the earth since the days of the Apostle Paul"), whose preaching deeply impressed the great chief and his sons, and led them to entreat him to dwell with them and become their teacher. He was probably converted to Christianity by Eliot's loving counsels. In 1660, overburdened with years and weary of honors, he abdicated his authority at a solemn senate of the mountain arid river tribes holden at Pawtucket Falls. His farewell address to his people was heard by two or three English guests, and was reported by them to have been a splendid piece of oratory. The following sentences are extracted from it: — " Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak, that has withstood the storms of more than a hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall! But when young and sturdy, when my bow no young man of the Pennacooks could bend, — when my arrows would pierce a deer at a hundred yards, and 1 could bury my hatchet in a sapling to the eye, — no wigwam had so many furs, no pole so many scalp-locks, as Passaconaway-s. Then I delighted in war. The whoop of the Pennacooks was heard on the Mohawk, — and no voice so loud as Passaconaway's. The scalps upon the pole of my wigwam told the story of Mohawk Buffering The oak will soon break before the whirlwind,—it shivers and shakes even now; soon its trunk will be prostrate, — the ant and the worm will sport upon it. Then think, my children, of what I say. I commune with the Great Spirit. He whispers me now: 'Tell your people, Peace — peace is the only hope of your race. I have given flre and thunder to the pale-faces for weapons,— I have made them plentier than the leaves of the forest; and still shall they increase. These meadows they shall turn with the plough, — these forests shall fall by the axe, — the pale-faces shall live upon your hunting-grounds, and make their villages upon your fishing-places-' The Great Spirit says this, and it must be so! We are few and powerless before them! We must bend before the storm ! The wind blows hard! The old oak trembles, its branches are gone, its sap is frozen, it bends. It falls! Peace, peace, with the white man ' —is the command of the Great Spirit; and the wish, — the last wish of Passaconaway." In reflecting upon the character of the Merrimaek Sagamon, tho conviction forces Itself upon one, that at the head of a powerful confederacy of Indian tribes, honored and feared by his subjects, and capable of moulding their fierce passions to his will, the history of New England would have told another story, than the triumph of our Pilgrim Fathers, had Passaconaway taken a different view of his own destiny and that of his tribe, —and exerted his well-known and acknowledged power against the enemies of his race." (potter's Hist, of Manchester ) " It is a notorious fact that the English trespassed on his hunting-grounds and stole his lauds. Yet he never stole anything from them. They killed his warriors, — yet he never killed a white man, woman, or child. They captured and imprisoned his sons and daughters, — yet he never led a captive into the wilderness. Once the proudest and most noble Bashaba of New England, he passed his extreme old age poor, forsaken, and robbed of all that was dear to him, by those to whom he had been a firm friend for nearly half a century." (little's Htst, of Warren.) The legend of the apotheosis of Passaconaway on Mt. Washington suggests the mysterious story of St. Aspinquid, who, according to the tradition, was an Indian sage, born in 1588, converted to Christianity in 1628, and died in 1682. His funeral was on Mt. Agamenticus, and was attended by many sachems, who had a great hunting-feast and brought to his grave 6,711 slain animals, including 99 bears, 66 moose, 25 bucks, 67 does, 240 wolves, 82 wild-cats, 8 catamounts, 482 foxes, 32 buffaloes, 400 otter, 620 beaver, 1500 mink, 110 ferrets, 520 raccoons, 900 musquashes, 501 fishers, 3 ermines, 38 porcupines, 832 martens, 59 woodchucks, and 112 rattlesnakes. On the mountain-tomb was carved the inscription: — "Present useful; absent wanted ; Lived desired; died lamented." St. Aspinquid is said to have preached the Gospel for 40 years, and among 66 nations, " from the Atlantic Ocean to the Californian Sea. "Mr. Thatcher thinks that Passaconaway and St. Aspinquid were one in the same, since their age and reputation so nearly agree; and advances a theory that Passaconaway retired to Mt. Agamenticus during King Philip's War, received the name of Aspinquid from the sea-shore Indians, and died a few years later. , The Apostle Eliot and Gen. Gookin saw Passaconaway when he was in the white winter of his 120th year. After his abdication of the Pennacook sovereignty he was granted a narrow tract of land in Litchfield by the Province of Massachusetts, where he lived for a short time. The time and manner of his death are unknown, but the traditions of the Pennacooks relate that he was carried from them, in the winter season, by a weird, wolf-drawn sleigh, and borne to the summit of Mt. Washington, whence he was received into heaven. The Theft of America The un-glorious stories of how the western areas of the United States were occupied by our forefathers through cajolery, fraud and deception is not limited to those western territories. The theft of the native American's homelands all began when the first English explorers set foot on this continent. All too frequently the native people were more than willing to sell or trade their homelands for a trivial compensation. While the early explorers inflicted unknown diseases upon the Indians who already lived here, it was not done intentionally, (Although it has been shown that it was not beneath the early settlers to intentionally expose the Indians to known diseases with known consequences.) The process of illness and disease severely decimated and weakened the native population. Additionally, fighting amongst rival tribes also contributed to a dramatic decrease in their populations during the 1600's. Many of those who did survive found their way of life completely at odds with the practices and traditions of the early settlers who came from completely different backgrounds. The concept of owning land was unheard of to the native populace who believed the land was there for everyones mutual benefit. Yet they did respect the territories of rival tribes and wars over such territories were not uncommon. Thus, their defenses against the intrusions of the early settlers would have been a natural reaction. The weapons available to them however were far inferior to those of the invading settlers. While there were atrocities committed by both the native populace and early settlers many early stories point to the basic peaceful nature of the native inhabitants, particularly the Abenaki peoples and their desire to obtain peaceful arrangements with the new settlers over the use of the land. The history of New England would have told another story, than the triumph of our Pilgrim Fathers, had Passaconaway taken a different view of his own destiny and that of his tribe, —and exerted his well-known and acknowledged power against the enemies of his race." It is a notorious fact that the English trespassed on his hunting-grounds and stole his lands. Yet he never stole anything from them. They killed his warriors, — yet he never killed a white man, woman, or child. They captured and imprisoned his sons and daughters, — yet he never led a captive into the wilderness. Once the proudest and most noble Bashaba of New England, he passed his extreme old age poor, forsaken, and robbed of all that was dear to him, by those to whom he had been a firm friend for nearly half a century. In another article you can read of the heritage and lives of those who now are only remembered as the names of mountains, roads and towns, beyond which many inhabitants have no knowledge of how the names originated or who those people were. This material came from Moses Sweetser's White Mountain Guide of 1886. Google it for more interesting information. CONSIDER THIS MORE CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINT: There is a growing effort to bring history back into focus and to correct many misconceptions about the relationship of Native People, such as us, and the founding of the United States. We were not all killed off by disease or warfare and did not disappear with the colonization of this country. Many of us became the individual fibers of the weave that made the cloth of the United States and Canada. We are among you, working beside you in all walks of life. Unless we told you who we were, you would probably never know us. Please Have a peek at their website; HERE Also check this list of NATIVE AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS Abenaki clothing, 18th Century Abenaki Culture ABENAKI CULTURE There are a dozen variations of the name Abenakis, such as Abenaquiois, Abakivis, Quabenakionek, Wabenakies and others. The Abenaki were described in the Jesuit Relations as not cannibals, and as docile, ingenious, temperate in the use of liquor, and not profane. All Abenaki tribes lived a lifestyle similar to the Algonquin of southern New England. They cultivated crops for food, locating villages on or near fertile river floodplains. Other less major, but still important, parts of their diet included game and fish from hunting and fishing, and wild plants. They lived in scattered bands of extended families for most of the year. Each man had different hunting territories inherited through his father. Unlike the Iroquois, the Abenaki were patrilineal. Bands came together during the spring and summer at temporary villages near rivers, or somewhere along the seacoast for planting and fishing. These villages occasionally had to be fortified, depending on the alliances and enemies of other tribes or of Europeans near the village. Abenaki villages were quite small when compared to the Iroquois'; the average number of people was about 100. Most Abenaki settlements used dome-shaped, bark-covered wigwams for housing, though a few preferred oval-shaped long houses. During the winter, the Abenaki lived in small groups further inland. The homes there were bark-covered wigwams shaped in a way similar to the teepees of the Great Plains Indians. The Abnaki lined the inside of their conical wigwams with bear and deer skins for warmth. The Abenaki also built long houses similar to those of the Iroquois. POPULATION AND EPIDEMICS Before the Abenaki — except the Pennacook and Micmac — had contact with the European world, their population may have numbered as many as 40,000. Around 20,000 would have been Eastern Abenaki, another 10,000 would have been Western Abenaki, and the last 10,000 would have been Maritime Abenaki. Early contacts with European fisherman resulted in two major epidemics that affected Abenaki during the 1500s. The first epidemic was an unknown sickness occurring sometime between 1564 and 1570, and the second one was typhus in 1586. Multiple epidemics arrived a decade prior to the English settlement of Massachusetts in 1620, when three separate sicknesses swept across New England and the Canadian Maritimes. Maine was hit very hard during the year of 1617, with a fatality rate of 75%, and the population of the Eastern Abenaki fell to about 5,000. Fortunately, the Western Abenaki were a more isolated group of people and suffered far less, losing only about half of their original population of 10,000. The new diseases continued to cause more disaster, starting with smallpox in 1631, 1633, and 1639. Seven years later, an unknown epidemic struck, with influenza passing through the following year. Smallpox affected the Abenaki again in 1649, and diphtheria came through 10 years later. Once again, smallpox struck in 1670, and influenza again in 1675. Smallpox affected the Native Americans again in 1677, 1679, 1687, along with measles, 1691, 1729, 1733, 1755, and finally in 1758. The Abenaki population continued to decline, but in 1676, they took in thousands of refugees from many southern New England tribes displaced by settlement and King Philip's War. Because of this, descendents of nearly every southern New England Algonquin can be found among the Abenaki people. Another century later, there were fewer than 1,000 Abenaki remaining after the American Revolution. The population has recovered to nearly 12,000 total in the United States and Canada. Where Are They Now? There are no federally recognized Indian tribes in New Hampshire today. Originally the Abenaki's lived in the area from Concord northward and the Pennacooks lived in the area from Concord Southward. Most Native Americans were forced to leave New Hampshire during the 1600's, when eastern tribes were being displaced by colonial expansion. These tribes are not extinct, but except for the descendants of New Hampshire Native Americans who hid or assimilated into white society, they do not live in New Hampshire anymore. Most tribes that once were native to New Hampshire ended up on reservations in Canada. THE WHEELWRIGHT DEED May 17, 1629: Whereas we the Sagamores of Penecook, Pentucket, Squamsquot, and Nuchawanack are inclined to have the English inhabit amongst us by which means we hope in time to be Strengthened against our Enemies who yearly doth us Damage likewise being persuaded that it will be for the good of us and our Posterity, do hereby covenant and agree with the English as follows - - - in consideration of a Competent valuation in goods already received in Coats, Shirts, and victuals...convey all that part of the Main Land bounded by the River of Pisattaqua and the River of Meremack... In Witness whereof we have hereunuto set our hands and seals the seventeeth day of May 1629 and in the fifth year of King Charles's reign over England...Passaconaway...Runaawitt, Wahanqnononawitt, Wardargoscum.. This deed has been pronounced a forgery, but authentic documents have lately come to light, that go to show the genuineness of this instrument." Judge C. E. Potter, 1851 W. J. Sidis wrote: Passaconaway inquired as to whether white ideas of property covered anything corresponding to permission to occupy, and found out that the whites know of such things as leases; so, by authority from the Federal Council (after considerable objection from the Piscataquas, whose territory the place was) he had a regular deed made out as part of the peace treaty, leasing to these unrecognised Puritan outposts a region extending from the Piscataqua west to the Merrimac, and from the Merrimac thirty miles north. This lease provided for a specified rental in furs for each town to be established in that region. This rent was paid regularly, except for war periods, up to 1755; but, as land titles in that region are still based on Passaconaway’s deed, now preserved at Exeter, rather than on Mason’s title claim, this leaves the Penacook Federation, or whoever is their successor, the real owners of a territory including Rockingham County in New Hampshire, and some surrounding territory, including the cities of Haverhill and Manchester, and half of Lowell and Lawrence. The Tribes and the States, Chap. 8 ["One of the earliest of Passaconaway's transactions with the English is said to have been his signing of the famous Wheelwright Deed. By many this has been considered a forgery. The Rev. N. Bouton, D. D., Editor of the Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, writes thus, however: 'The famous 'Wheelwright Deed, which has been pronounced a forgery by Hon. James Savage, the distinguished antiquarian of Boston, and the late John Farmer, Esq., of Concord, bears date May 17, 1629. The Sagamons (chiefs) of most note among the Pennacooks, were Passaconnaway, Wonnalancet his son, and Kancamagus, usually called John Hogkins, his grandson. These Chiefs were successively at the head of the Pennacoks, and each in his way, was a man of mark in his time. Passaconnaway was one of the most noted Indian Chiefs in New England. For a much more detailed accounting of their activities refer to Chapter 5 at this link: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nh/county/hillsborough/manchester/book/evening.html Theft of America contemporary culture population wherenow wheelwr[ght THIS PAGE CONTENTS: The Theft of America Contemporary Viewpoint Abenaki Culture Population and Epidemics Where are they now? The Wheelwright Deed King Philip's War Life 1000 Years Ago THIS PAGE CONTENTS: The Theft of America Contemporary Viewpoint Abenaki Culture Population and Epidemics Where are they now? The Wheelwright Deed King Philip's War Life 1000 Years Ago BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 BACK TO TOP KING PHILIP'S WAR The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, Metacom, or Pometacom , known to the English as "King Philip." King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacom 's War or Metacom's Rebellion,[1] was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676. It continued in northern New England (primarily on the Maine frontier) even after King Philip was killed, until a treaty was signed at Casco Bay in April 1678.[2] According to a combined estimate of loss of life in Schultz and Tougias' "King Philip's War, The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict" (based on sources from the Department of Defense, the Bureau of Census, and the work of Colonial historian Francis Jennings ), 800 out of 52,000 English colonists (1 out of every 65) and 3,000 out of 20,000 natives (3 out of every 20) lost their lives due to the war, which makes it proportionately one of the bloodiest and costliest in the history of America.[3] More than half of New England's ninety towns were assaulted by Native American warriors.[4] Much More Information can be found at Wikipedia. -------------------------------------- King Philip was a native American Indian and King Philip's war began in 1675. King Philip explains what led to the uprising: The English who came first to this country were but an handful of people, forlorn, poor and distressed. My father was then sachem [chief]. He relieved their distresses in the most kind and hospitable manner. He gave them land to build and plant upon. He did all in his power to serve them. Others of their country men came and joined them. Their numbers rapidly increased. My father's counselors became uneasy and alarmed lest, as they were possessed of firearms, which was not the case of the Indians, they should finally undertake to give law to the Indians, and take from them their country. They therefore advised him to destroy them before they should become too strong, and it should be too late. My father was also the father of the English. He represented to his counselors and warriors that the English knew many sciences which the Indians did not; that they improved and cultivated the earth, and raised cattle and fruits, and that there was sufficient room n the country for both the English and the Indians. His advise prevailed. It was concluded to give victuals to the English. They flourished and increased. Experience taught that the advice of my father's counselors was right. By various means they got possessed of a great part of his territory. But he still remained their friend until he died. My elder brother became sachem. They pretended to suspect him of evil designs against them. He was seized and confined, and thereby thrown into sickness and died. Soon after I became sachem they disarmed all my people. They tried my people by their own laws and assessed damages against them which they could not pay. Their land was taken. Sometimes the cattle of the English would come into the cornfields of my people, for they did not make fences like the English. I must then be seized and confined till I sold another tract of my country for satisfaction of all damages and costs. But a small part of the dominion of my ancestors remains. I am determined not to live till I have no country. Source: History of Swansea KingPhilip THIS PAGE CONTENTS: The Theft of America Contemporary Viewpoint Abenaki Culture Population and Epidemics Where are they now? The Wheelwright Deed King Philip's War Life 1000 Years Ago BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP TALL TITLE What life was like 1,000 years ago Life1000YearsAgo In an article published in 2000, Doug Sweet looks back at life 1,000 years ago in Montreal. The story gives some historical context to the an exhibition at Pointe-à-Callière Museum, St. Lawrence Iroquoians, Corn People. By Montreal GazetteNovember 17, 2006 Begin with quiet. No noise from jostling traffic or an onrushing metro train. No hum from the computer fan. No jumble of voices bouncing off the walls of a frenzied shopping centre. No television, no radio, cinema, CDs, MP3s or other instruments of the late-20th-century cacophony in which we are immersed every blessed day of our brief lives. Silence. Listen, now, for the sounds that 1,000 years ago - a millennium ago - would be heard in this place we call home. Tall and ancient trees moaning in the clean wind. Water rattling through rocks and rapids and lapping quietly at the pebbled shore. A bird's stabbing cry. The quick rustle of unseen wildlife in thickets of underbrush. The echoing rumble of thunder or splatter of falling rain. A primeval atmosphere. Add to this the murmur of human voices gathered together - an infant's wail, the shrieks of children playing, sharp words between a husband and wife, the drone of mystical singing. There's the strike of stone on stone, the thud of a rock axe against thick wood, a fire's crackle. These would be about the only sounds anyone would hear if they visited what is now Montreal. The only sounds. That was to change, of course. But in the vast sweep of time, what was wrought by later immigrants to this land was relatively recent. In our collective arrogance, we often overlook the human life that existed in this place for millennia before the first Europeans ventured up a great river in search of a quick route to the treasures of China and the East. The history of the island now called Montreal does not begin with Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville Marie in 1642. It doesn't begin with Samuel de Champlain's visit of 1611 or with Jacques Cartier's day-and-a-half stopover at the Iroquoian village Hochelaga in 1535. People had lived in this region long before that. Thousands of them. After the last of the great ice sheets melted away and the resulting inland sea began to dry up about 10,000 years ago, people drifted into this land, discovering its abundant rivers and their rich flood plains. With lower-lying land still flooded by the Champlain Sea, the earliest possible residents lived on higher ground to the west of Montreal, near what is now called Lac St. Francois, a widening of the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ont. They are referred to as Paleoindians and were succeeded, the archaeologists tell us, by Archaic people about 5,000 years ago. These were the ancestors of the people who, about 1,000 years ago, began to develop rudimentary agriculture here. By about 1200 to 1300 AD, those whom anthropologists and archaeologists call St. Lawrence Iroquoians had developed their agriculture to the point that their crops of beans, squash and corn had supplanted hunting as the community's primary source of food. Farming brought an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians settled down, shifting their longhouse villages about every 20 years in search of more fertile farmland. On his 1535 voyage up the St. Lawrence, Cartier visited a village, which he called Hochelaga, with between 1,000 and 2,000 inhabitants. He stayed only briefly, but described the community in some detail. Less than 50 years later, the people who lived on Montreal Island and in the vicinity began to disperse. Where they went is fairly easy to determine by studying far-flung fragments of pottery - the St. Lawrence Iroquoians employed a distinctive pottery style - into eastern Ontario, farther down the St. Lawrence River, even into northeastern New England and the Lac St-Jean region. But why they left remains a mystery. Could diseases, such as influenza and smallpox, have been introduced by Cartier (or other lesser-known explorers), leaving the people of Hochelaga vulnerable to more frequent and sustained attack from neighbouring Algonquin, Iroquois or Huron tribes? Was there a small but significant shift in climate patterns rendering their rudimentary agriculture impossible? Did they just get tired of the same old river and the same old mountain? A definitive answer is probably impossible, but what is certain is that by the time Champlain explored this area in 1611 there was no trace of Hochelaga. Gone. And never to return. Although Algonquins from the Ottawa River region settled the island sporadically between the time of Cartier's visit and the permanent French encampment established by Maisonneuve in 1642, the last substantial aboriginal community on the island simply evaporated. - - - So the white-faced men and women returned, and this time they stayed for good, bringing different customs, different values, different goals, a different god. They also brought different sounds: their languages, as well as the sound of hammering and sawing, the thwack of sharper steel axes against the same tree trunks, then the rumble of wheeled carts, the mooing and grunting of domesticated animals. The sound of gunfire. And, through treaties, trade, cheating, warfare and wave upon wave of unending immigration, they took control of this island and they built, stone by stone, log by log, a small town nestled under the protective shadow of a stunted mountain, hard against the endlessly flowing river that would shape the city's destiny for centuries to come. How appropriate that Montreal, a city that has borne witness to so many profound changes in its makeup and character, should lie next to the endless flow of a river rather than the static body of a lake. History is the story of change, a nd Montreal has enjoyed more of it than most cities on this continent in its 357 years of existence.The French settlers, in addition to devoting themselves and their energies to converting the ``heathen'' aboriginals to Christianity and specifically Roman Catholicism, quickly realized the potential of the region's rivers as superhighways leading inland to the heart of a lucrative fur trade. That industry, more than any other, propelled the young city into a position of economic expansion and prominence in the New World. The British conquest of the mid-18th century brought the tones of yet another language to Montreal, although the fur trade continued to be the economic staple of an expanding and diversifying economy. Gradually, into the next century, industrialization crept in and with it new sounds, new energies. Smokestacks and coal fires brought soot and smoke along with jobs for immigrants. Machinery, sugar, tobacco, dry goods were refined or produced here for consumption elsewhere. That meant a transportation industry, and again the river was of vital importance. For a time in the middle of the 19th century, most of the people living within the city of Montreal proper spoke English, but that soon changed with massive immigration of French-speaking Quebecers from the hinterland, providing Montreal with the unique sound and image it offers to the world to this day: a mixture of languages and cultures that sometimes collide but more often embrace each other; a face and a voice that are replicated nowhere else on the planet. Added to the principal ingredients of this cultural bouillabaisse is the spice of multi-ethnicity made possible by successive bursts of immigration: the Irish in the early to middle part of the 19th century; Russian Jews at the turn of the 20th century; Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and other Europeans in smaller numbers in the first decades of the 1900s and then in great waves that date from the 1950s on; more recently Africans and Middle Easterners, those from the Caribbean and southern Asia, as well as people from Central and South America. All have contributed to the local culture; all have helped change the sounds of Montreal, from the bustle of Chinatown to the summertime tam-tams at the foot of Mount Royal. With the different cultural currents have come changing economic fortunes. The early industrialization of the mid-1800s gave way to larger and more numerous factories, from the sugar refineries of the Lachine Canal to the heavy machine shops of the sprawling Angus yards where Canadian Pacific built and maintained locomotives. But just as political eddies and whirlpools were becoming stronger and more tumultuous, so, too, was there continued turbulence in the city's economic underpinnings. Smokestacks and enormous electric motors gave way to computer chips and microscopes. The heavy machine shops closed and the pharmaceutical industry exploded. Sugar refineries became film studios; instead of locomotives, Montrealers were building jet airplanes. The river flowed on. - - - Most of us who live at the close of the 20th century can be pretty full of ourselves . We sit in hermetically sealed houses and office towers, shops and factories, the vast majority of us perfectly safe from numbing cold or blistering heat. Look, we say, look at all we have accomplished and created, how we have shaped this place, conquered the wilderness and erected great temples to our commerce, our technology and our genius. In this pride and comfort, it is so easy to overlook who and what went before us - what it took to live here, what humans endured merely to survive until the next dawn, what drove men and women to live in this terrible land, to feel it, explore it and test it. We forget the courage it took to stare at the worst of nature's elements and prevail. We forget how primitive were the conditions that existed before anyone had even imagined the word ``lifestyle.'' Stripped of human comforts, this is a rugged, forbidding, unfriendly place. It is hot and infested with insects. It is soggy with rain. It is bitter with cold and snow and wind. It is ice. That those who came before us, either by land bridge or by the hand of the Creator or by way of creaking little wooden ships, managed to carve out a lasting existence is evidence of an astonishing spirit. Could we summon such spirit today? There are those who have doubts about human society's lurching ``progress'' which is, but for some important aesthetic touches, little different in modern Montreal than in modern Berlin or Baton Rouge. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the great minds of the recent past, put it this way: ``Modern man can all but leap out beyond the confines of his being; through the eyes of television he is present throughout the whole planet all at the same time. Yet it turns out that from this spasmodic pace of technocentric Progress, from the oceans of superficial information and cheap spectacles, the human soul does not grow, but instead grows more shallow, and spiritual life is only reduced. ``Our culture, accordingly, grows poorer and dimmer, no matter how it tries to drown out its decline by the din of empty novelties. As creature comforts continue to improve for the average person, so spiritual development grows stagnant. Surfeit brings with it a nagging sadness of the heart, as we sense that the whirlpool of pleasures does not bring satisfaction, and that before long, it may suffocate us. . . . The victory of technological civilization has also instilled a spiritual insecurity in us. Its gifts enrich, but enslave us as well. All is interests - we must not neglect our interests - all is a struggle for material things; but an inner voice tells us that we have lost something pure, elevated, and fragile. We have ceased to see the purpose.'' - - - Has the human condition improved since our ancestors inhabited this place? Undoubtedly. Even in the eyeblink of the last century, to use but one example, the infant-mortality rate in Montreal that ran to well over 300 deaths per thousand in the middle of the 1880s has been reduced to only 6.6 per thousand today. Human life expectancy in prosperous countries such as ours has virtually doubled since the Industrial Revolution. And people who have lived and worked here in Montreal in the last two centuries have contributed in no small measure to those improvements. We can take pride in work done here that has helped ease suffering and cured disease. How life has been enriched by poets and writers and artists who flourished and found in this place their muse. How thousands upon thousands of us have found a better life than the one our ancestors knew, with opportunities more vast and a future brighter than anything that could have been imagined while huddled in the stinking hold of a rat-ridden ship. How entrepreneurship and ingenuity have contributed to learning and to life at institutions and industries founded here and nurtured by citizens who cared about the progress of human society. The change of a millennium, as artificial as it may seem - and as false a turning point as it is to countless others who follow, at least for religious purposes, a different calendar - is a good time to put those accomplishments into perspective. Today, January 1, 2000, is just another day. Apart from the rather important fact that the modern calendar is woefully imprecise when it comes to measuring the time since Christ was born about 2,000 years ago, it is not even the official turning of the century or the millennium. That will come in a year's time - although, one expects, without the hoopla or the Y2K bug that tried to seize the world's attention now. Regardless of which date one chooses to celebrate the turnover of the world's most common odometer, the change of century and of millennium provides an ideal time for reflection - of what has gone before, of what is, and of what might be in the years to come. We cannot predict the future any more than we can change the past, but we can ponder the kind of society we think we should strive to achieve, and reflect upon what it might take to get us there. It is, as Solzhenitsyn suggests, a time to rediscover the purpose. Website Editor Note: While this particular story focuses on Montreal, its message is the same no matter what place name gets attatched to the subject matter. It could just as easily be Bartlett, New Hampshire. BACK TO TOP BACK TO TOP

I asked Artificial intelligence to list all the Section Houses and Stations in Crawford Notch, Here's what it found: This document is a research work in progress. Artificial Intelligence has made several errors in the facts. AI Says: I'll pull your browsing history and research, then compile everything into a comprehensive master list. Let me start gathering all the sources at once. Here is the complete master list, compiled from your browsing history, the Bartlett Historical Society records, JSTOR's Mountain Division article, NH State Parks documentation, Branch Line Society station lists, Wikipedia, and multiple primary source stereoview/postcard evidence from your eBay research sessions. Crawford Notch Railroad Station Master List Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad → Maine Central Railroad (Mountain Division) → Boston & Maine / Guilford → Conway Scenic Railroad Mileposts measured from Portland Union Station, Maine Context & Railroad Succession Railroad Era Notes: Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad (P&O)1867–1884 (charter); opened through Notch Aug 7–16, 1875 Built the line; 7 of the 8 Notch section houses are P&O construction. Portland & Ogdensburg Railway (P&O Ry)1884–1888 Reorganized after bankruptcy. Maine Central Railroad (MEC) — Mountain Division1888–1983 Leased P&O; Mountain Subdivision designation after 1925. Boston & Maine / Guilford Transportation1983–1995 Final operators before abandonment. Conway Scenic Railroad (CSR) 1995–present Heritage excursion service, Notch Train to Crawford Depot. Master Station & Structure List — Ordered by Milepost (South → North) 1. Bemis / Notchland Field Detail Milepost~73.0 (south end of Crawford Notch proper) Also Known As Bemis Place; later renamed Notchland TypePassenger flag stop / agency station Railroad P&O → MEC Years Active: 1875–c.1920s (as Bemis); continued as Notchland thereafter Notes: Marks the south gateway and the base of the famous 9-consecutive-mile grade averaging 116 ft/mile up to Crawford Depot. Referenced as "Bemis" in NH State Parks documents and the JSTOR Mountain Division article, which explicitly states it was "renamed Notchland." Named for Dr. Samuel Bemis, early White Mountains landowner and photographer. The 1918 runaway freight that lost its brakes derailed on the long curve above Bemis on its way down. Agents: Foremen Not confirmed in surviving records Fate: Vanished; no structure survives 2. Sawyer River Station & Junction Field Detail Milepost74.8 Type: Agency station; junction with Sawyer River Railroad (logging) RailroadP&O (section house built by P&O) → MEC Years Active 1875–1954 (section house); MEC agency closed 1921; junction active 1877–c.1937 Section 128 / Bartlett district Notes: Junction point for the 8-mile Sawyer River Railroad (1877–c.1937), which served the company logging town of Livermore, NH. The SRR had its own brick engine house, general office, and yard at Livermore. Two surviving structures — the section men's car house and foreman's dwelling — remain as private properties today. Long sidings visible in early-20th-century photographs. The town of Livermore (150–200 residents at peak) was entirely served through this junction. Section Foremen: 1888–1891: George Rich; 1894–1902: John Stevens; 1902–1903: Leslie Smith; 1903–1905: George Murch; 1905–1911: Merville Murch; 1912–1927: John McCann; 1927–1954: Robert Gardner Fate: Station gone; section house site survives as private property; Sawyer River RR grade survives as gravel road and hiking trail; siding periodically used by CSR for maintenance staging. 3. Carrigain Dwelling / Station Field Detail Milepost78.8 Also Known As"Willey House Post Office" (later designation); Carrigain Dwelling Type Section dwelling; flag stop; Post Office Railroad P&O Years Active1875–1990 (razed) Notes : Located approximately one mile west of Sawyer River Station, near the junction where the Saco Valley Railroad (SVRR, incorporated April 1891) branched toward the logging town of Carrigain. The SVRR operated roughly 7 miles into the Cutts Grant; logging completed by Feb. 1, 1898, and the SVRR was discontinued. The MEC dwelling at MP 78.8 later served as a post office and was informally associated with the Willey House name. Bartlett History notes later occupants rebuilt by their son Bill King. Residents / Foremen: 1875–1894: unknown; 1894–1896: Fred Pingree; 1896–1940: Patrick McGee; 1941–1973: Peter King; 1973–1990: Private dwelling Fate: Razed 1990 and new structure built by King's son. 4. Avalanche Flag Stop (original Willey House stop) Field Detail Milepost80.8 Also Known As Avalanche; original Willey House station Type Flag stop / section dwelling Railroad P&O Years Active1875–1887 Notes: The first station serving the Willey House area, opened with the line in 1875. Short-lived; replaced around 1878 by the more accessible Willey House stop slightly to the north (MP 80.82/80.9). The Kilburn Brothers stereoviews from the early 1870s–1880s document this structure beside what was then called Cow Brook (now Avalanche Brook). Structure included a section foreman's house, ice house, and section house. Foundation survives in the vegetation. Foremen: 1875–1887: Anthony Swift Fate: Closed 1887; replaced by Willey House flag stop; foundation survives. 5. Willey House Flag Stop & Section Dwelling Field Detail Milepost80.82 (original); 80.90 (rebuilt, c.1878) Type: Flag stop; section dwelling; Post Office; telegraph office; freight agency Railroad P&O → MEC Section: Section 128 Years Active: c.1878–1976 (railroad use); building survived to 1988 Notes: Two-story dwelling replacing the Avalanche flag stop. MEC timetables listed it as a telegraph point where carload freight could be handled and passenger tickets sold. Florence Monahan served as postmistress and telegraph operator from 1903; mail was caught and thrown via a catcher arm on passing trains. The Monahan family raised six daughters here. In 1927 an extra freight near Willey House had its boiler explode, killing the crew. Kilburn Brothers stereoviews document the structure prominently from the 1870s onward — your eBay browsing sessions captured multiple examples including views of the Mt. Willey slide area, the Willey Brook bridge approach, and the station in winter (Dane H.G. Malcolm / Dwight Smith Collection photographs). Section Foremen & Agents: 1870–1883: Alfred Allen (foreman, resided at Crawford House); 1887–1903: William Burnell; 1903–1941: Joseph & Florence Monahan; 1943–1953: Joseph Burke; 1953–1965: Cornelius Griffin; 1965–1976: Wellman Rowell. Fate: Closed 1976; burned by the railroad 1988 6. Aldridge (Aldrich) House Field Detail Milepost82.5 Type Section dwelling Railroad P&O Years Active 1875–c.1894 Notes One of seven section dwellings constructed by the P&O when the line opened. Located between the Willey House and the Guay Place, in the steepest section of the grade. Foremen: 1875–c.1894: Joseph Aldridge Fate: Closed c.1894; demolished; no traces known 7. Guay Place Field Detail Milepost83.0 Type: Section dwelling Railroad: P&O Years Active: 1875–1888 Notes: One of the original P&O section houses, located just below the Mt. Willard section. Foreman's name is not recorded in surviving sources. The Monahan family is associated with this location in Bartlett History records after the initial occupant departed. Foremen1875–1888: Unknown FateClosed 1888; demolished 8. Mt. Willard Section House ⭐ (most documented) Field Detail Milepost 83.54 TypeSection house (MEC-built, the only one of the 8 not built by P&O) RailroadMEC (built 1888, replacing earlier Mitchell dwelling) SectionSection 129 Years Active1888–1965 (railroad occupancy); standing until 1972 Notes The most famous structure in Crawford Notch railroad history. "Fortress-like" building visible from Route 302, beside Willey Brook Bridge. Crews responsible for Section 129 — MP 82.5 to just east of Crawford Station, the most demanding section on the Mountain Division. Willey Brook Bridge (100 ft high, 400 ft long; both spans replaced in 7 minutes in 1905 without interrupting train service) is immediately adjacent. Loring Evans was killed in a yard accident at Crawford's in 1913; his wife Hattie remained and boarded section men until 1942 — nearly 40 years. Raymond W. Evans (their son) later built a detailed scale model of the house. Subject of Virginia C. Downs's book Life by the Tracks. Extensively documented in Kilburn Brothers stereoviews and your Beechwood/Beachwood eBay browsing sessions (the "Beechwood Engineers Home" stereoviews are related Crawford Notch railroad dwelling views). Foundation, memorial, and small garden survive at site. Section Foremen1888–1898: James E. Mitchell; 1898–1903: Joseph Monahan; 1903–1941: Loring Evans (killed 1913) / Hattie Evans; 1944–1950: O. Douglas Macomber; 1951–1952: Quervis Strout; 1954–1962: Thomas Sweeney; 1963–1965: Wellman Rowell FateClosed 1965; burned by railroad December 13, 1972 after chronic vandalism; foundation and monument survive 9. Mitchell Dwelling (The Foreman's Cottage) Field Detail Milepost84.0 Type Section dwelling (P&O) Railroad P&O Years Active 1875–1888 Notes: The original dwelling for James E. Mitchell and family before the MEC-built Mt. Willard Section House replaced it at MP 83.54 in 1888. Mitchell and family then moved into the new structure. This location is essentially the approach to the Great Cut / Gates of Crawford Notch. Foremen: 1875–1888: James E. Mitchell Fate: Removed when replaced by Mt. Willard Section House in 1888 10. Beechwood / "Engineer's Home" (Crawford Notch) Field Detail Milepost~84.3–84.8 (approximate; within the Great Gorge / Great Cut zone) Type Railroad dwelling / engineer's resting place Railroad P&O → MEC Years Active 1870s–early 20th century Notes: Documented in Kilburn Brothers stereo views as "Beachwood — Engineer's Home, Crawford Notch, NH" (also spelled Beechwood). Appears in your eBay browsing session from August 2, 2026, including at least two separate listings for the stereo view. This was a railroad-provided dwelling or layover point for locomotive crews. The variant spellings (Beachwood/Beechwood) appear on different Kilburn prints. Located within or immediately below the Great Cut / Great Gorge, the most spectacular section approaching Crawford Depot. Exact milepost requires field confirmation against surviving stereo view landmarks. Agents / Foremen: Not confirmed in surviving written records Fate: Vanished; no structure known to survive 11. Davis Brook Section House Field Detail Milepost~84.5–85.0 (approximate; between Mitchell Dwelling and Crawford Depot) Type: Section dwelling RailroadP&O Years Active1875–unknown Notes: Your browsing history shows three consecutive searches on August 3, 2026 for "Davis Brook section house P&O railroad map," indicating active research into this structure's location on P&O maps. Davis Brook enters the Saco just south of Crawford Depot; a section house at this point would have served the final approach to the summit. Milepost requires confirmation against P&O plat maps. Foremen: Not confirmed in surviving records Fate: Unknown; no structure known to survive 12. Frankenstein Flag Stop Field Detail Milepost~75.5–76.0 (at or near the Frankenstein Trestle, Hart's Location) TypeFlag stop Railroad P&O → MEC Years Active 1875–c.1950s Notes: Named for Godfrey N. Frankenstein (1820–1873), the German-born American artist who painted Crawford Notch. The adjacent trestle — originally wrought iron (1875), rebuilt in steel 1893, strengthened 1930 and 1950 — is 520 ft long and 85 ft above the ravine floor. The Branch Line Society's NH station list confirms Frankenstein as a separate stop from Willey House and Crawford Notch. The trestle is now traversed by Conway Scenic's Notch Train. Historical marker (NH #0213) erected 2009. Agents / Foremen: None confirmed; flag stop only Fate: Stop discontinued; trestle in active use by CSR 13. Crawford Notch / Willey House Camps Passenger Stop Field Detail Milepost~80.5–81.0 (near Willey House clearing) Type: Seasonal passengers stop / platform Railroad MEC → B&M Years Active: 1922–c.1950s Notes: After 1922, the Willey House clearing was leased to Donahue & Hamlin of Bartlett, who built a cabin colony of peeled spruce logs for vacationers (the "Birches" and "Willey House Camps" documented in your eBay RPPC browsing — multiple real photo postcards of the Birches and Willey House Camps appear in your July 31, 2026 browsing session). Trains made scheduled stops at or near the existing Willey House flag stop to serve the camp colony. The camps eventually reverted to state operation. RPPC cards from 1925 showing "Crawford Notch NH Willey House Camps" and "The Birches Crawford Notch" document the camp era. Agents / Foremen: Same as Willey House dwelling (Florence Monahan, postmistress) Fate: Stop discontinued with passenger service decline; state park site survives 14. Crawford Depot (Crawford's Station) ⭐ (only survivor) Field Detail Milepost~85.2 (highest point on the Mountain Division) Also Known As Crawford's; Crawford Station; Crawford Notch Station; Maine Central Passenger Railway Station Type Full passenger depot; Post Office; freight station; telegraph office Railroad P&O (original 1875 structure) → MEC (rebuilt 1891) Years Active: 1875–1983 (railroad service); 1962 converted to gift shop; AMC visitors center from c.1995 Elevation1,900 ft ASL — highest depot on the Mountain Division ArchitectureQueen Anne style, 26×30 ft; octagonal corner turret; canted fireplace bay; stained glass; hip roof with sawn brackets; pent roof on three sides. MEC gave this station special attention because of its symbolic summit location. Notes: Built by MEC in 1891, replacing the P&O original. Served the Crawford House hotel (rebuilt 1853, burned 1977 — AMC Highland Center now occupies that site). Station foreman's house (built 1887, burned 1972) was immediately adjacent. Pusher service operated from Bartlett (MP 73) to Crawford's, typically using Mallet compound #1203, later Mikados. The summit ceremony of the P&O was held here August 7, 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places April 29, 1982 (NRHP #82001672). Now the northern terminus of Conway Scenic Railroad's Notch Train. The 1887 foreman's house shared Queen Anne vocabulary with the depot and burned in the same 1972 period as the Mt. Willard section house. Your eBay browsing (August 2, 2026) includes a Kilburn stereoview of the Mt. Willey/Willey House area and the 1880s Crawford House business trade card. Known Agents / Station Foremen: Station agent records not fully digitized; the 1887 foreman's house indicates a named permanent agent through at least the 1887–1972 period Fate: Standing — only Crawford Notch railroad structure still intact. Restored; AMC visitor center and Conway Scenic Railroad station Summary Table — All Structures at a Glance Click the table to enlarge Notes on Sources & Reliability Mileposts confirmed (Bartlett Historical Society primary records): 74.8, 78.8, 80.8, 80.82/80.9, 82.5, 83.0, 83.54, 84.0 Bartlett History Bartlett History Bartlett History Bemis = Notchland confirmed: JSTOR Mountain Division of the Maine Central Railroad; NH State Parks "Bemis Station at the south end of the notch" JSTOR NH State Parks Frankenstein confirmed as separate flag stop : Branch Line Society NH stations list The Branch Line Society Crawford Depot architecture and history: Wikipedia; NRHP nomination; Crawford Depot/Gorham NH Wikipedia historic-structures.com Mt. Willard Section House Evans family history: ScenicNH Photography; Rhubarb Loop; Bartlett History ScenicNH Photography LLC rhubarbloop.co.uk Sawyer River junction and logging RR : Abandoned Rails; Rhubarb Loop; Sawyer River RR histories rhubarbloop.co.uk Abandoned Rails Beechwood / Davis Brook: Documented from your direct eBay browsing (Aug. 2–3, 2026) and Kilburn stereoview collections; mileposts are approximate pending P&O plat map confirmation Willey House Camps / Birches : Documented from your July 31, 2026 eBay browsing (RPPC postcards of the Birches and Willey House Camps, 1925) ebay.com ebay.com ebay.com ebay.com Open Research Items to Fill in Davis Brook Section House — Milepost needs confirmation against surviving P&O engineering maps (your Aug. 3 searches were seeking this; the NH Historical Society holds P&O stereoviews that may include section house location context) New Hampshire Historical Society Beechwood exact milepost — Cross-reference Kilburn stereoview caption geography against known landmarks (Great Gorge / Great Cut position puts it MP 84–85 range) Crawford Depot agents — Full agent roster 1875–1983; NH State Archives railroad personnel records Bemis/Notchland milepost — Confirm against P&O original survey documents; the JSTOR article places it at "nine miles below Crawford's," suggesting MP ~76 Carrigain Dwelling / SVRR junction — Exact MP of Saco Valley Railroad branch point vs. Carrigain Dwelling; may be two distinct locations within a short distance MPNameTypeRailroadYears ActiveKey PersonnelFate 73.0 Bemis / Notchland Flag stop / agencyP&O → MEC1875–c.1920s—Vanished 73.7 Sawyer River Station Agency + logging junctionP&O → MEC1875–1954Rich; Stevens; Smith; G.Murch; M.Murch; McCann; GardnerSite survives (private); SRR grade 75.5 Frankenstein Flag Stop Flag stopP&O → MEC1875–c.1950s—Stop gone; trestle active (CSR) 77.9 Davis Brook Bridge 78.8 Carrigain Dwelling Section dwelling / P.O.P&O1875–1990Pingree; P.McGee; P.KingRazed 1990 80.5–81.0 Willey House Camps stopSeasonal passenger stopMEC → B&M1922–c.1950sF. Monahan (agent)Discontinued; state park 80.8 Avalanche Flag Stop Flag stop / dwellingP&O1875–1887Anthony SwiftFoundation survives 80.82–80.90Willey House Flag Stop Flag stop / dwelling / P.O. / telegraphP&O → MECc.1878–1976Allen; Burnell; J.&F. Monahan; Burke; Griffin; RowellBurned by RR 1988 82.5Aldridge House Section dwellingP&O1875–c.1894Joseph Aldridge Gone 83.0Guay Place Section dwellingP&O1875–1888UnknownGone 83.54Mt. Willard Section House Section houseMEC (built 1888)1888–1965Mitchell; J.Monahan; L.Evans/Hattie Evans; Macomber; Strout; Sweeney; RowellBurned by RR Dec. 13, 1972; foundation + monument survive 84.0Mitchell Dwelling Section dwellingP&O1875–1888James E. MitchellRemoved 1888 84.3–84.8 Beechwood / Engineer's HomeRailroad dwellingP&O → MEC1870s–early 1900sUnknownVanished 84.5–85 .0 Davis Brook Section HouseSection dwellingP&O1875–?UnknownUnknown; likely gone 85.2 Crawford DepotFull depot / P.O. / freightP&O (1875) → MEC (rebuilt 1891)1875–presentMultiple agents (records incomplete)Standing — NRHP listed; AMC + CSR

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Historic Inns, Lodges, Hotels and Motels in Bartlett NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Share Lodgings in the upper village area - Page 2 Village Area Lodging Page 1 Village Area Lodging Page 3 Upper Village Area Intervale Area Glen Area Historic Lodging Map Silver Springs Tavern and Cabins : The building pictured here in 1944 burned and was replaced with the existing building. This property once belonged to GK Howard, then Howard and Sadie Lowd who sold it to C.I. Pendelton. In the late 1940s it was owned by Henry Mead . Eventually Emil Hanson rented it and in 1971 Clinton Burke bought the business. Later Jerry and Dora English managed it. In 1976 the Schoen family took over and operated it as a popular campground until their retirement in about 2000. The building has been unused since then and the campground closed.. This photo dated 1938 This was called The Forest Inn located in Bartlett Village on the corner of Forest Ave and Rte 302.. In 1890 Frank George sold the land and probably the existing building to Clementine Lawlis. She operated it as an Inn until her death in the mid 1950's, Clementine left the property to her only survivor, Hazel Amadon, who lived near Portland Maine. Hazel sold the property in 1955 to R.G. Hazelton but it is not known how he utilized the property but he resold it to Leland Walsh in 1958. Leland Walsh was a 1st cousin to Sonny and Robert Pettengill. He was the son of their Father's Sister Ester who lived in VT. In 1967 the property was sold to Edmund and Ruth Pettengill and it remains with their descendants now (2020). Frank George probably acquired the property between 1860 and 1885 as part of many transactions in which he purchased more than a thousand acres of land in the Bartlett area from Parker, Stillings, Rogers, Towle and Hall to name just a few. For some period of time in the 1930's Silver Springs was called Howard's Camp . These Photos are titled "Howard's Camp" and dated 1930 on the back. It is recognizable as the later named Henry Mead's Silver Springs Campground. Today (2019) you will find it as an un-named building about a half mile east of the Harts Location Town Line. The building shown here was destroyed by fire and re-built. The once famed Sawyer's Rock is just around the corner on the left. It has been mostly blasted away to widen the road. Historic Lodging Map Hotels Lodging Page 1 Continue to page 2 Continue to page 3 Forest HowardsHenrys Glendenning Glendennings Cabins were owned and operated by Ray Glendenning in the 1930's. Each of the ten cabins was just large enough for a bed and a burea. They were located just east of the Bartlett Town Ball Field. There are just two of these buildings still standing, one of which was recently repaired and resided. The Pines is today's Bartlett Inn . This photo is from about 1915. The building dates from about 1885 and was originally the private residence of "Big Jim" Donahue who was also a familiar name in the lumbering operations at Livermore . As Livermore came to an end, by 1925 the Donahue's were catering to tourists and called their Inn The Pines. The Donahue's also operated a store in the Village (Later Mallett's). The Pines also had the only tennis courts in town. During the 1930's the Donahue's were doing so well they added more units, in the form of cottages. In the 1940's the property was purchased and operated by Claire and Paul Birnkammer who remained for thirty years when in 1970 they sold to Barbara Stone , followed by Don and Chere Meegan , followed by Mark Dindorf in 1985. Pines The Gateway Cottages, later The Target, then The Abenaki Motel. These have been connected to be one structure and still exist next door to the Bartlett Village Ball Park (Blackfly Field).These were operational from the 1930's to the 1990s. The main Inn building dates back to 1890 and was operated as The Gateway, by the Sweet family. The cottages were added in the 1930's. In 1961 the property was purchased by Doug Williams and Stuart & Anna Walker, all of Canadian background. In 1963 Mr. Williams became the sole owner. In 1971 he changed the name from Target to Abenaki. The three original cabins were joined with three new units being added, making a six unit motel. There were four cottages behind the main building. The main Inn burned sometime during the 2010's and the "motel" has been unused. Picture Below is The Gateway, 1940's. In 1961 it became The Target and in 1963 was renamed The Abenaki. Description at left. gateway Abenaki Target The Gateway Office Sign - not dated It appears to be lit by a kerosene lantern.. Historic Lodging Map Hotels Lodging Page 1 Continue to page 2 Continue to page 3 skyValley Sky Valley Motor Court: In 1945 Alan & Libby Eliason came to Bartlett from Chestertown, Maryland, where Alan operated a professional photographic studio. Alan and Libby intended the cottage business to be a summer only endeavor so he could keep himself busy while he escaped his allergies, ‘hay fever.’ In 1946, Alan and Libby purchased the property from Orin Cook and established Sky Valley Motor Court on the former French Farm about one mile east of Bartlett Village. A brief history of the Sky Valley property. This property was a part of the 1793 farm of Obed Hall , one of Bartlett's first pioneers. A part of it was also known as The Timothy George Farm. In 1898 Ida Hall (a descendant of Obed) sold a part of the property to Edgar Stevens, who at that time was the proprietor of the Cave Mountain House in the Village. In 1921 Edgar Stevens’ heirs (Don and Blanche Hobbs and James and Bertha Cook ) sold the property to Orin A. Cook . Orin operated a farm and an inn known as Maple Dale Cottage. By the 1950's Maple Dale Cottage was operated by Andrew and Anna-Marie Arendt , who came to Bartlett from Germany shortly before the beginning of WW II. Andrew was a meticulous flower and vegetable gardener and the area that is now the parking lot of the Penguin Ski Club was once filled with flowers and shrubs of all varieties. The Arendts are both buried in the Catholic Cemetery just down the street, (see headstone picture below) and Maple Dale Cottage became the Penguin Ski Club in the mid 1960's. Another 88 acre section of Obed Hall's Farm, later known as the Maybury lot , passed from a John T. Wentworth to Nathan French in 1855. That section remained in the French family until 1908 when it passed on to Lavinia Maybury by will. Lavinia sold the property to Orin Cook in 1918. It's interesting that when the Eliasons were looking for property to buy, they almost purchased the abandoned property then known as the Stilphen Farm , today's Storybook Inn , but the superb mountain vistas from the French farm swayed the decision, even though Stilphen's was a better location. Alan said most of his business decisions were often made for the wrong reasons, but personal preferences usually ruled over business sense. Not a bad credo. Sky Valley first consisted of nine cabins that were popular at the time. By 1955 ten modern motel units were added, along with the first swimming pool in the area. Since there were very few eating establishments in the immediate area at that time, Alan and Libby also built and operated "The Poolside Restaurant " on the property, along with a gift shop added about 1958. Many folks in the Village worked at Sky Valley at one time or another. Lillian Sanborn made all the pastries and desserts for the restaurant, and her daughters, Evelyn and Ellen , along with the daughters of farmer Harry Rogers , (Rogers’ Crossing) and Harry's niece Betty Jackson, were among the housekeepers. Lillian’s son Henry ran what may have been the first trash collection business in Bartlett. Alan’s son, David , remembers the big old truck loading up all the trash, with separate containers for anything suitable to feed the pigs Henry kept. Donna Ward worked at Sky Valley for at least ten years, first tending to Eliason's children and later on the front desk. The "summer only idea" did not last - by 1956. With full backing from their children, Alan and Libby moved the family from Chestertown permanently to Bartlett, although the business did not open for winter guests until the early 1970's. To supplement his income, Alan became a real estate broker first working with Wimpy Thurston , who briefly owned a store in the Village at that time. Alan was later associated with Leland Realty in the development of Tyrol Ski Slopes , and later with Country Squire Realty in North Conway along with Ellsworth Russell, who was a prominent citizen of Eaton. Alan continued to operate the business until 1968 when it was sold to Mr. John Chase . However, by 1971 Alan was once more the owner when Chase defaulted on the mortgage. About this time Alan's son, David, was in college and helped out in the business as time permitted. In 1975 Alan retired from Sky Valley and David agreed to take over the operation full time, with a one year contract. Forty four years later Dave and his siblings sold the property to Little Angels Service Dogs, owned by Kyler and Darlene Drew of Intervale. Dave was one of the longest serving innkeepers in the Mt. Washington Valley! Most hotel/motel operators have enough sense to "move along" after ten or fifteen years...or less. Dave is also your humble Bartlett Historical Society Web site editor. Alan returned to Maryland permanently in 2008, where he died at the same house where he was born in 1921. 1948 front sign on Route 302 These type of cottages were very popular in the 1950's and 1960's. As with all things, their popularity declined in the 1970's and many similar operations were no longer viable. Sky Valley kept up with the times with a series of renovations until the mid 2010's when many businesses could not compete with the influx of chain hotels and condominiums in the area. In 2019 the business was sold to Little Angels Service Dogs operated by Josh Drew with his parents Darlene and Kyler . If you grew up in Bartlett from the mid 1950's through the mid 1980's you probably learned to swim at the Sky Valley Pool with Red Cross Swimming Instructors. Sky Valley operated for about 70 years from the late 1940's until 2019. Eliason obed timothy IdaHall edgarstevens coles November 2019: The old restaurant building above (on the left) and all the little cabins were demolished to make way for a new campground being constructed by Dick Goff. (The cabin on the left remains as of April 2021). Coles Cabins and Coles Restaurant were operated by Henry and Sadie Cole beginning about 1935. It is said that Sadie had quite a temper and one needed to be alert for fry pans flying around. Lewis Mead purchased the cabins and restaurant in 1955 and the bigger house in the background is where Lewis and Sandra Mead live. Lewis died in 2008. You can see the gas pumps that, in 1935, were in the driveway of the main house. The pumps were later moved eastward to the front of the cabin office. The cabins and restaurant building later became A Better Life Cabins although they never used the restaurant building. Their office was in a smallish building in front of the cabins, which doubled as a convenience store. In the 1960's Winston Marcoux operated the store for a year or two. As of this writing (2020) the restaurant and cabins have been demolished to make way for a new campground being built by Dick Goff of West Side Road in Bartlett. Pictured below are the Cole's in 1924 on a berry picking expedition. cole Mead Better Life Winston The Dunrovin Inn was originally the private Residence of GK Howard and before he opened the Howard Hotel he had taken in travellers at this location. Eventually he sold the building to Elizabeth and John OConnell. They operated it as an Inn until 1945. The postcard below, with a postmark of 1948, states the owners as George and Hazel Bennett of Jackson. The building now serves as the Brettl-hupfers ski club. Click on the image for a large size, and click on the postcard back side to read the message dated August 1948. Photo postcard courtesy Michael Bannon. dunrovin John Whyte's Villager Motel is located about a mile east of the Village. It was built in the 1960's. Mr Whyte operated it for a number of years before selling to Mr. & Mrs Zerveskes. They added about 15 more units on the right side of this picture. The Zerveskes lasted about 15 years before retiring to Florida in the 1990's. There have been a few other owners in the meantime and it is still operational today (2019). Editors note: My memory is a bit foggy on these details. Please send any corrections to me using the contact form. Thank you, JohnWhytes Contact CRAWFORD NOTCH POSTCARD DATED 1913 on the back side. Probable location is about a half mile west of where Silver Springs Campground was located. We are looking east and Sawyers Rock is around the bend on the right side. This card scanned from the collection of Michael Bannon. Upper Village Area Intervale Area Glen Area Historic Lodging Map OMISSIONS - ERRORS - MISTAKES - JUST PLAIN LIES? 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Josiah Bartlett Biography Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795) was an American physician and statesman who, as a delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, signed the Declaration of Independence. He was later Chief Justice of New Hampshire's Supreme Court and Governor of the state. Personal life Josiah was born in on November 21, 1729 to Stephen and Hannah (Webster) Bartlett in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He was their fifth child and fourth son. He attended the common schools, but with uncommon success. By the age of sixteen, by study, he had also built a foundation in Latin and learned some Greek. In 1745 he began the study of medicine, working in the office of Dr. Ordway of Amesbury. Before he turned twenty-one, in 1750, he moved to Kingston, New Hampshire in Rockingham County, hung out his shingle and began his practice. Kingston at that time was a frontier settlement of only a few hundred families. If a man could stitch wounds, set bones, and treat fevers, he was welcome, even without formal educational credentials. Dr. Bartlett could, and as the only Doctor in this part of the county, his practice prospered. He purchased land and added a farm to his credit. On January 15, 1754 he married Mary Bartlett of Newton, New Hampshire. She was his cousin, the daughter of his uncle, Joseph. They would remain a devoted couple until her death in July 14, 1789. Over the years they would have eleven children: Mary (1754), Lois (1756), Miriam (1758), Rhoda (1760), Hannah (who died as an infant, 1762), Levi (1753), Josiah (1765, died that same year), Josiah (1768), Ezra (1770), Sarah (1773), Hannah (1776, also died as an infant). All three of his sons, and five of his grandsons would follow him as physicians. Political career Like many prominent men in small communities, Bartlett became active in the political affairs of Kingston, and in 1765 he was elected to the colonial assembly. In 1767 he became the colonel of his county's militia and Governor John Wentworth appointed him justice of the peace. As the Revolution neared, his Whig policies brought him into opposition with the Royal Governor, John Wentworth. In 1774, Bartlett joined the Assembly's Committee of Correspondence and began his work with the revolutionary leaders of the other 12 colonies. Later that year, when Wentworth dismissed, or prorogued, the Assembly, Josiah was elected to its revolutionary (and illegal) successor, the Provincial Assembly. He also suffered the loss of his home by fire, alleged to have been set by opposition Tories. He moved his family out to the farmhouse and began rebuilding immediately. When the assembly appointed Bartlett and John Pickering as delegates to the Continental Congress, he had to decline because to attend to his family, but remained active in New Hampshire's affairs. In one of Governor Wentworth's last acts before being expelled from New Hampshire in 1775, he revoked Bartlett's commissions as Justice, Militia Colonel, and Assemblyman. Continental Congress Bartlett was selected as a delegate again in 1775, and attended that session as well as the meetings 1776. Indeed, for a time in late 1775 and early 1776 he was the only delegate attending from New Hampshire. Much of the work of the Congress was carried out in Committees. The most important of these had a delegate from each state, which meant that Bartlett served on all of them, including those of Safety, Secrecy, Munitions, Marine, and Civil Government. His attention to detail and hard work in these committees made him one of the most influential members in the Congress, even though he was seldom active in debates before the full congress. Eventually, after his continued letters home to the Assembly and Committee of Safety in New Hampshire, William Whipple and Matthew Thornton were added to the delegation in Philadelphia. When the question of declaring independence from Great Britain was officially brought up in 1776, as a representative of the northernmost colony Bartlett was the first to be asked, and answered in the affirmative. On August 2, 1776 when delegates signed the formal copy of the Declaration of Independence, his position made him the second to sign, just after John Hancock, the president of the Congress. In 1777, he declined a return to the congress, citing fatigue due to earlier efforts. But when trouble threatened, he used his medical skills and accompanied John Stark's forces to the Battle of Bennington in August. He was re-elected to Congress in 1778, and served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation. But, after the articles were adopted, he returned to New Hampshire to attend to personal business. This was the last of his federal service, as he felt he had overlooked his family for too long. Indeed, while he was at the Congress in 1776, his wife Mary had managed the farm, saw to the completion of rebuilding their house, cared for nine children, and given birth to Hannah. Later career Although he remained in the state after 1778, in 1779 he returned to his role as a Judge, serving in the Court of common ples. Then in 1782 he was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in spite of not being a lawyer. Indeed, some contemporary lawyers held the view that justice was never better than when the senior judges knew little legal history. In 1788 Bartlett was made the Chief Justice of the state's supreme court. That same year he was a delegate to the New Hampshire convention for adoption of the Constitution, serving part of the time as is Chairman. He argued forcefully for ratification, which finally took place on June 21, 1788. The legislature of the new State of New Hampshire, selected him to be a U. S. Senator, but he declined the office. Josiah Bartlett House: 156 Main Street, Kingston, New Hampshire, 03848 (Across from Kingston Town Hall) Access: This is a private home and not open to the public. Recognition: National Historic Landmark As Governor In 1790 Josiah's lifetime of contribution received its highest recognitions. He secured legislation recognizing the New Hampshire Medical Society. He was also elected chief executive of New Hampshire by an overwhelming majority. He served in 1791 and 1792 as President. Then when the new State Constitution took effect in 1792 he continued, now as governor. He resigned in 1794 after four years because of declining health, he died the next year. During his tenure, he oversaw the installation of a new state constitution, compilation of the laws and statutes in force, and provision for the early payment of the State's debt. He actively promoted agriculture and manufacturing, the improvement of roads, and saw the start of projects to build canals to better unite the people. Medical career Bartlett actively practiced medicine for 45 years. From a modern perspective, this alone would be a major accomplishment. He had no university training, and left school at the age of fourteen. In effect, he apprenticed with another Doctor, and set up a practice at the age twenty. But, he was willing to consider what worked, and avoided some traditional therapies such as bleeding. His reputation was firmly secured in 1754. The area around Kingston had an epidemic of a fever and canker simply called throat distemper around 1735. For adults it was a serious illness, but for children it was frequently fatal, especially among the very young. When the illness struck again in 1754, Dr. Bartlett simply tried doses of several available drugs, and discovered that Peruvian Bark would relieve symptoms long enough to allow recovery. Bartlett lived during a time when medical practice was progressing rapidly. His wide reading, steady hands, and conscientious work made him an effective and successful physician. He founded and was the first president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. In 1790 he delivered the commencement address at Dartmouth College when his son Ezra graduated. In part, the honor was due to his signing of the Declaration of Independence, and his new selection as President of New Hampshire. But, in part, it was a recognition of his medical career. He was awarded an honorary MD (Doctor of Medicine) the same day his son earned that degree. Later life He retired to his home in Kingston, and died there on May 19, 1795. He is buried next to his wife Mary in the Plains Cemetery, also at Kingston. A bronze statue of Bartlett stands in the town square of Amesburry, Massachusetts. His portrait hangs in the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, drawn from an original by Jonathan Trumbull. Bartlett, New Hampshire is named in his honor, and The Josiah Bartlett elementary school is a visible presence on its major roadway. The fictional President of The West Wing, a popular television drama series, is named "Josiah Bartlet". Despite the spelling difference, the character (played by Martin Sheen) claims to be a direct descendant of a New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence. SOURCE MATERIAL: http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bartlett_Josiah.html painting BartHouse museum Statue MaryB Mary Bartlett - Biography Mary "The wife of Governor Bartlett, the signer, was Mary Bartlett (a cousin), of Newton, N. H., A lady of excellent character and an ornament to society. She died in 1789," wrote Levi Bartlett, a descendant of the signer, nearly a century after her death. Not much more of her youth than this can be told. Her father, Joseph Bartlett, was a soldier at Haverhill, in 1707, where he was made captive by the French and Indians, carried to Canada and held four years.* Mary Bartlett was one of ten children born to Joseph Bartlett, and she was married to her cousin, Josiah Bartlett, in January, 1754. He was a rising young physician at the time, in the town of Kingston, N. H ., and had already attracted favorable attention by reason of his success in the treatment of a throat distemper, known as the "black canker," which had broken out with uncommon virulence. Mary Bartlett was then twenty-four years old, an amiable girl, well grown and, for the times, well educated. For the next ten years, her life was that of the wife of a popular and prosperous young country doctor. His skill as a practitioner was accepted. He was democratic, kindly, and fast growing in the esteem of his fellow citizens. Always a man of strict integrity, sound judgment, and marked public spirit, he early began to take an active part in public affairs. He was made a civil magistrate and soon after given command of a regiment of militia. In 1765, he was chosen representative to the Provincial Legislature from Kingston. Though Governor Wentworth had appointed him to several positions of honor and profit, Dr. Bartlett felt called upon, almost from the first, to oppose vigorously some of the Governor's measures in the Legislature especially those pertaining to the land grants, a vast system of official peculation that was one of the great evils of the administrations of both the Wentworths. By 1774, the aggressions of the Governor, and the policy of the British Ministry which he was trying to carry out, had grown so burdensome to the people that Dr. Bartlett and a few other leaders found themselves in almost open opposition. He was still a member of the Legislature and in that year we find him at the head of a "Committee of Correspondence," which was in constant communication with Samuel Adams and other patriots of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Then Dr. Bartlett was elected delegate to "a general congress to be held in Philadelphia." This brought down upon him the wrath of Governor Wentworth and his Tory adherents. His appointment as Justice of the Peace was revoked and his commission as Colonel of militia was taken from him. Soon afterward his house was set on fire and burned to the ground, after he had received warning to cease his "pernicious activity . During all this period, Mary Bartlett had been the closest friend and counselor of her husband. Just as he had consulted her over his troubles as a young physician, helping to bear the home burdens of his patients and personal friends in their little community, so now he consulted her about the greater troubles and dangers that menaced the country. And always she was the true helpmeet, always the ready and sympathetic friend and judicious adviser. Her patriotism was as ardent as his and burned with as steady a flame, and when their home lay in ruins and the family were driven to seek shelter and safety elsewhere, she took their numerous brood and retired to their little farm, which she managed thereafter, leaving him free to devote himself almost entirely to the public business. Between these public duties Dr. Bartlett found time to rebuild, on the site of his ruined home, a fine old-style New England mansion, that still stands. In all her letters to her husband and her children, there is not one word of regret at his course or pity for herself, left alone to bear the double duties incumbent upon her; no complaints, only a spirit of loving, helpful sympathy in all his acts. Mrs. Bartlett died in their new house in Kingston, in July, 1789, and her death was a great blow to her husband, who was at the time Chief Justice. The following year he was chosen President of New Hampshire, which office he held until 1793, when he was elected Governor, the first the Commonwealth ever had as an independent State. He declined re-election and died shortly afterward in the sixty-sixth year of his age, broken down, according to his own declaration, by grief and the double duties and responsibilities imposed upon him since her death. Twelve children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Bartlett, of whom eight came to maturity. Three sons, Levi, Joseph, and Ezra, followed in their father's footsteps and became eminent physicians, and all three of them took considerable interest in public affairs, holding not a few positions of honor and responsibility. Of the daughters, Mary, who married Jonathan Greeley, Miriam, who married Joseph Calef, Rhoda, who married Reuben True, and Sarah, who married Dr. Amos Gale, were the only ones to leave descendants. Source: Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence, by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, A.B. (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 1997). Orignaly Published in 1912 as volume 3 of The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons). Pages 10-14. (Some minor spelling changes may have been made.) SOURCE: Colonial hall . com * [From page 149] In 1707, Joseph Bartlett was drafted and sent with others to Haverhill to defend the town against an expected attack of French and Indians from Canada. August 29, 1708, about 160 French and 50 Indians attacked the town and set fire to several buildings. Mr. Bartlett and others were in a chamber of Captain Wainright's house from the windows of which they fired upon the enemy. They were informed that their only safety was in surrender. Mr. Bartlett secreted his gun in the chimney above the fireplace, went down, asked for quarter, was bound, and carried to Canada where he remained a prisoner until he was redeemed. After a captivity of four years he returned. He afterward visited Haverhill and found his gun where he had secreted it. It finally came to his grand nephew, Richard Bartlett of Amesbury, Mass., who carried it while a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Richard brought the gun back with him from the Revolution and it was afterward blown to pieces by some boy celebrating Fourth of July. Levi Bartlett (author of this sketch) collected the fragments in I879, and riveted, and wired the gun together and deposited it in the rooms of the New Hampshire Historical Society where it may still he seen." MaryB-PIC Gun

Kearsarge Area Most of Kearsarge is in North Conway. As you drive up the Hurricane Mountain Road, everything on the left (west) is Bartlett, everything on the right is not. I have picked out a few things that seem appropriate. In 1845 a hotel building was erected on Mount Kearsarge by Caleb and Nathaniel Frye, John Dana, and Moses Chandler. It was used for several years and then fell into disuse. In 1868 it was bought, renovated, and operated as a hotel by Andrew Dinsmore. During the 1870's it was run by A.A. and J.W. Whitaker. A bridle path up the mountain made it accessible by horseback. After a beating wind blew the building down in 1883, it was replaced by a shack. Although there were plans for a railroad running to the top of the mountain, and in 1885 the North Conway-Mount Kearsarge Railway Corporation was actually organized, these plans were never realized. In 1902 the building and site were purchased by the Appalachian Mountain Club , and mountain climbing became a sport in this area. Today the summit and approach are part of the White Mountain National Forest and the present building is a fire-lookout station. painting Expanded first summit house - Mt Kearsarge 1869 - blew down in 1883 George Newcomb Painting Hotel origin dispute Origin of the Name Kearsarge. The new Kearsarge is named after the old Kearsarge. but what was the old Kearsarge named after? This would stump any "current-events class" going. The old Kearsarge was named after an obscure, yet respectable mountain in New Hampshire, and it is said that the mountain was named by juggling the name of its discoverer and its first owner. Hezekiah Sargeant.— Springfield Republican. The name Kearsarge likely evolved from a 1652 rendering of the native Pennacook tribal word Carasarga which means "notch-pointed-mountain of pines." This would give it name to Mount Kearsarge. Kearsarge also gave its name to a class of 375 foot 11,540 short ton battleships. Kearsarge North is located about 4 miles northeast of North Conway. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names accepted the name "Pequawket Mountain" in 1915 but it was renamed Kearsarge North in 1957. The Pequawket are a subdivision of the Abenaki people who formerly lived in the area. An 1894 New York Times newspaper article explains the naming of our Kearsarge Mountain and Village: At the time there were two Kearsarge Mountains. Article is Here An article at the "Cow Hampshire" website offers an excellent resource for the naming of Mt Kearsarge North. Click the cow, below: (Link is ok Jan 2025) fire tower 1918 SumHse Long ago rd Road Buttonwood Buttonwood Inn The Buttonwood Inn on Mt Surprise Road began as a mountain farm. The main house dates to 1820 but the wings are more recent additions. All of the outbuildings are gone now but the granite foundation of the barn remains, (as of this writing in 1992 ) In 1992 it was owned by Peter and Claudia Needham. Peter has previous Innkeeping experience at Stowe, Vermont. The Needhams purchased the Inn from Ann, Hugh and Walter Begley who had owned it from the early 1980's. Before that it was a private residence owned by the McGinnises who bought it in 1975 from David and Irma Taylor who opened the inn in 1947, primarily as a ski lodge. They called it the Hid-a-Way. Irma began serving breakfast and dinner, beginning the transition from a ski lodge to a country inn. David was also a library Trustee and was instrumental in finding the author of the book from which this information was gleaned...(copied)... Source info below. At this writing in 2024 the Inn is operated by Doug and Donna Marie. They have a very informative website at: https://www.buttonwoodinn.com/meet-the-innkeepers.html SOURCE: Used with permission - "The Latchstring Was Always Out" - Aileen Carroll - 1994 Taylor Hid a way

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , NEW HOTEL TO OPEN IN BARTLETT VILLAGE G.K. Howard announces new Hotel will Open on July 1st of this year. Completely modern with all the conveniences todays traveller expects. Continue Here REGION HOUSE SOLD Intervale Establishment Name is changed to "The Skirolean" This item from Robert Girouard: The Evans Family Reunion at the Notchland Inn, Mt Ear Newspaper Article - March 1984. Also a photo of the then proprietor John Bernardin. It's Here Junior Ski Program Gets Underway Nearly 50 Bartlett Students Participate in the 1958 Program Read the details Bartlett Bank & Trust Company to Open in April 1891 Clarence George, Arthur Meserve and others announce details to serve all banking needs in the Upper Village Continue on page 16 Bartlett InnKeeper Mistakes Friend for Foe and Shoots Him Dead Read the details Please Support Our Advertisers See this historic map that shows most of the old-time Lodging Establishments. If you never heard of "Obed Hall's Tavern" or "Titus Brown's Inn" it's not surprising, since they operated more than 200 years ago in Bartlett. Have a look and discover where they were. --_______ Who was Titus Brown?_________________________ I found out and here is the info. November 1949 G.K. Howard, Prominent Citizen of Upper Bartlett, has Died. Details__________ Drunken Wagon Driver Crashes on Mt Washington. 1 KILLED; 5 WOUNDED First injuries ever on famed road Read the details Concord Evening Monitor 1893 DISASTER STRIKES: Fire Sunday Destroys Entire Business District in Bartlett Get The Whole Story Here The Bartlett Express Remembers Elwood Dinsmore. 50 years of Railroading and 50 years in the garage/wrecker business. See his picture and read about him here. Were you in the 8th grade at the Bartlett School in the mid 1950's ? We found this picture of all you folks How Did Frankenstein Cliff Get Its Name? Who is Carroll County named for? Answers to these and many more at Origination of Place Names; HERE NEW CONTRIBUTION FROM RAYMOND HEBB: IMAGINE, IT IS JUNE 17, 1960 and The Bartlett High School Class of 1940 is having their 20th Reunion. Thanks to Mr. Hebb who saved all the details. There are names here you might remember. _____Take a look here I acquired an 1883 Newspaper Article by A.A. Smith in the Kennebec Reporter in Gardiner Maine. It describes the life of LADY BLANCHE MURPHY in delightful detail and how she went from Aristocrat to Pauper in pursuit of her ideals. It's at this page hebb

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , OBITUARY INDEX OF FOLKS WITH TIES TO BARTLETT, NH ADDITIONAL SOURCES: Furber and White Funeral Home has a searchable listing of obituaries. Abbott, Ruth Ward GO Ainsworth, Archie "Stubby" GO Ainsworth, Jean GO Ainsworth, Ruth Alison Russell GO Alandar, David Karl GO Allan, Florence Irene GO Allen, Colleen GO Allen, Gary GO Anthony, Kathleen C GO Anthony, Todd D "Stitch" GO Bailey, Ray II GO Bailey, Sanborn Evelyn Ruth GO Bailey, Vin GO Barnes, Belvin R GO Barnes, Pearl A GO Bellerose ,Leavitt, Mary Ann - GO Bellerose, Roland A - GO Bennett, Arnold - picture only GO Bennett, Marilyn - GO Bianchino, Daniel GO Bickford, Harold C. GO Blake, Robert C GO Booth, David James GO Bowie, Myron - 1889-1926 - GO Burke, Alice Ward GO Burke, Annie Winnie GO Burke, Clinton I GO Burke, Clinton I, Jr GO Carter, Albert E Jr GO Cassell, Roberta Rose GO Chadbourne, Doris M GO Chandler, Alice (wife of Earl Sr) GO Chandler, Christine GO Chandler, Donald William GO Chandler, Earl GO Chandler, Earl "Rusty" Jr GO Chandler, Nancy Katherine Sheehan GO Chandler, Percy GO Chappee, Donna - GO Chappee, Douglas David GO Chappee, Marilyn Elaine Hill - GO Chase, Rodney B GO Clemons, Delia (1927) GO Clemons, Donald Harland GO Clemons, James GO Clemons, Roger GO Copp, Elaine Edith Henry GO Cotter, Anne, Schultze... GO Crouse, Isabel G GO Dana, Muriel L GO Davidson, Stanley E GO Dolley, Mark Wayne - GO Donovan, Kevin W GO Dudley, David A. GO Eastman, Allen Wayne GO Eastman, Opal T GO Eastman, Vivian Rose GO Egbert, Thurston Merrill Jr (Sam) GO Eliason, Alan GO Eliason, Douglas Bruce GO Eliason, Elizabeth (Garman)(Dorsey) GO Eliason, Linda P - obit GO Elliott, Edward M (Bert) GO Emerson, Robert O GO Ettel, Hans Joerg - GO Fernald, Earle W GO Filip, Jan Gordon III GO Fish, Russell GO Forman, Barbara J GO Garland, Alice L (Sullivan) GO Garland, Elfreda P GO Garland, Eunice H GO Garland, Jean Lois GO Garland, Lois Jean (Jean's daughter) GO Garman, Elizabeth (Eliason) (Dorsey) GO Gaudette, Linda GO George, Benjamin J GO George, Clarence Herbert (Bert) GO George, Franklin, Hon. 1836-1907 GO Gerling, Laura Dorothy GO Glines, Richard R. GO Gonya, Richard C GO Gothreau, Charles (Chris) GO Gramstorff, George - obit GO Grant, Earl B GO Grant, Eva GO Grant, Gloria Clemons - GO Grant, Margaret GO Grant, Merle Burnell - obit GO Greene, Hamlin L GO Greenwood, Christopher Charles GO Greenwood, Jo-Ellen (Jody) GO Guptill, Clinton M GO Guptill, Sandra Jean (Fisher) GO Hall, Althea Joyce Morton GO Hall, Mary Chandler GO Hatch, Lucille L GO Hayes, Dora GO Hayes, Rosemarie GO Head, Jonathan M GO Head, Norman J. GO Hebb, Raymond M. GO Henn, Janet (Smith) GO Henry, Ernest GO Hill, Brian GO Hill, Donald F GO Hill, Earl F. (Gibb) GO Hill, Rita GO Holmes, Robert GO Holt, Lorraine Judd GO Hodge, Catherine Andrews GO Hodgkins, Nancy Ann June GO Hounsell, Janet Macallister GO Howard, Benson F GO Howard, Geraldine E GO Howard, George (Brud) Linus III, Col GO Howard, Granville, K. GO Howard, James M GO Howard, Ruth Marie GO Huhn, Holly GO Illsley, James Reginald, III GO James, Gerald Ivan GO Jefferson, Owen L. GO Johnson, Carroll R (C.J.) GO Jones, Flora Leona Giles GO Jones, Lorraine GO Jones, Richard A GO Jones, Robert L GO Kalil, Charles W GO Kelly, Carroll W GO Kerins, Joe GO Kerins, Michael GO King, Carol GO Kondrup_Taylor_Margaret GO Labbe, Edie Rose GO Lane,, John E, SR (Ona Bond) GO Leavitt, Mary Ann (Bellerose) GO Limmer, Peter Jr. GO Lynn, Robert Michael GO Lyons, Jack GO Macmanus, Gerald P GO Mallett, Ralph Alfred GO Mahany, Frank Jackson (Jack) GO Manna, Salvatore GO Marcoux, Zeke GO Mark, Dewey GO May, Susan GO Mckee, Bernardina (Howard, Deana) GO Mead, Joseph - died 1923 GO Mead, Lewis J. GO Mead, Ralph Lee GO Mead, Sandra Jill GO Mead, Wilfred GO Medeiros, John R. GO Melczarek, Jean GO Mersereau, Dorothy Thompson GO Mersereau, Gerald N GO Mersereau, Herman Reginald GO Mersereau, Jimmy GO Mersereau, Judi Ann (Eisner) GO Miller, Cecile A GO Mirabella, Grace C. GO Mirabella, Maria Judi GO Monahan, David GO Monahan, Phyllis Foley GO Morrell, Robert and Stoney GO Morton, Marion GO Morton, Peter K GO Moulton, John E. GO Mudgett, Francis - GO Mulkern, Joseph Andrew aka "Red" GO Mulvey, Douglas GO Murphy, John N GO Nealley, Kathleen G (Snow) - GO Nelson, Carl GO Nelson, Otto Alvar GO Nudd, Ronald P GO O'Brien, Francis J GO O'Connell, Maureen L GO Ohlson, Verland Swede GO ONell, Daniel GO Patch, Anita H GO Patch, Maxine Grace Anderson GO Patch, Richard F GO Pettengill, Ruth E GO Phaneuf, Mark GO Pollard, Michael GO Prince, Claire Josephine (nee Wassel) GO Richards, Dale M GO Richards, Elizabeth "Beth" GO Roberts, Lynn Roger GO Roden, John GO Rogers, Faylene Joyce GO Rogerson, Blaine Joseph Sr. GO Rogerson, Paula Rae GO Roode, David W GO Rowe, John A Jr. GO Roy, Susan M GO Russell, Dorothy Irene (Lent) GO Russell, Ruth Alison (Ainsworth) GO Russell, Tuck GO Ryan, Katherine E GO Samuelson, Arline "Topsy" GO Sanborn, Henry GO Sanborn, Lillian M GO Sandman, Demsey, Cindi GO Sanphy, Janet Burke GO Seavey, Jonathan S GO Seavey, Sylvia M GO Shaw, John E Jr. GO Sheehan, James (Jim) GO Smearer, Stan (just a photo) GO Smith, Walter C GO Snow, Nealley Goodnow, Kathleen GO Stillings, Woodrow Wilson GO Stimpson, Priscilla GO Stimpson, Richard M GO Stoner, Brenda J (Clemons) GO Taylor_Margaret_Kondrup GO Thorne, Harry GO Thorne, Thaddeus GO Tibbetts, Rita A (Clemons) GO Tibbetts, Robert (Bob) Simon, Jr GO Tilton, Geraldine Disbrow GO Tilton, Richard D GO Trecarten, Dale W GO Ward, Merton L GO Ward, Ronald M GO Ward, Everett GO Ware, Richard A GO Ware, Helen Tasi GO Warren, Marion Lucy GO Washburn, Fred - RR Pub Notice GO Webster, Dorothy E GO Whittum, Rita Helen GO Wyman, Kenneth GO Young, Ann (Russell) GO Young, Carroll GO

The Hall family ancestry in Bartlett NH BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Hall Ancestry Find More About Obed Hall in our "Early Settlers Section: OBED HALL ET AL John Hall, the immigrant ancestor, HALL was, according to his own deposition, born in 1617. He first appears in New England in Charlestown, where he was made a freeman May 6, 1635. He removed to Dover , New Hampshire, where his name appears on the tax list from 1648-49 until 1677, and often in land records. In 1652 he lived at Dover Neck, next to the meeting house, the lot on the southwesterly side which reached to the river and embraced a spring which is still flowing and is called Hall's spring. He was first deacon of the First Church of Dover as early as 1655. He was lot-layer as early as 1657 and as late as 1674. In 1658-59 he was one of three to lay out the town bounds between Lamprey and Newichawannock rivers , and to run the north boundary. In 1663 he was on a committee to lay out the highway from Lamprey river to the waterside. He was selectman in 1660, and was occasionally "commissioner to end small causes;" grand juror in 1663-66 and 68: "clerk of ye writs" for the court in 1663-68 and 69; town clerk in 1670-75-79 and other years. In 1677 Deacon Hall received a lot of twenty acres on the west side of Back river, which had been laid out to George Webb in 1642. He gave to his son Ralph by deed February 1. 1685-86, one-half the house and land, and the other half at his death, this deed was proved as his will May 4, 1692, and recorded February, 1694-95. He married Elizabeth . Children: 1. Sheba , baptized January 9, 1639-40. 2. John, born in Charlestown, September 21, 1645. representative to the New Hampshire legislature, 1694-95-96; died 1697. 3. Elizabeth , born September 4, 1647, died young. 4. Elizabeth , born November 2, 1648, died young. 5. Nathaniel , taxed in 1680. 6. Ralph, mentioned below. 7. Grace (?) , born May 16, 1663-64. (II) Ralph Hall, son of John Hall (1). was heir to his father's homestead at Dover's Neck. July 11, 1694, he lost twenty acres of land at Fresh creek in a lawsuit with Richard Waldron. Richard and Elizabeth Pinkham gave him a quitclaim deed to land in consideration of the sum of ten pounds. He was auditor in 1702 and constable in 1705. He died November 13, 1706. He married (second). May 26, 1701, Mary Chesley, daughter of Philip Chesley. In 1713 she, with her sister Esther, wife of John Hall , quitclaimed their father's plantation at Oyster river. She married (second), February 26, 1717-18, John Fox, and quitclaimed her share in the estate of her first husband, to John Hall, son of the first wife. Ralph. John and James Hall were administrators of the estate of their father Ralph, March 4, 1706-07. The estate was divided between seven sons, the eldest getting a double portion, and fifteen pounds to Jonathan who was "weak and sick." Children of the first wife: 1. John, born about 1685. settled in Somersworth, New Hampshire, married, August 9, 1705, Esther Chesley, sister of his stepmother. 2. James, died before 1735. 3. Jonathan . 4. Isaac, removed to Massachusetts. Children of the second wife: 5. Benjamin, born June, 1702. 6. Ralph , born about 1704, married Elizabeth Willey , of Lee, New Hampshire. 7. Joseph, born March 26, 1706. mentioned below. (III) Joseph Hall, son of Ralph Hall (2), was born at Dover, New Hampshire, March 26, 1706, and died November 14, 1782. He married, December 19, 1734, Peniel Bean . Children: 1. Anna , baptized July 29, 1735, married (first) Reuben Daniels , of Wolfsboro ; (second) Philip Kelley, of Wakefield . 2. Mary, baptized May 23, 1736, married Paul Hessey , and had four children. 3. Joseph, baptized November 5, 1738, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, baptized August 22, 1742, resided at Wakefield . and married widow Patience Taylor , of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. 5. Abigail, baptized October 7, 1744. 6. Samuel, baptized March 19, 1748. 7. Hannah, baptized April 2, 1749, married (second) Reuben Long. 8. John , baptized November 2, 1752. 9. Peniel, married, March 19, 1775. John Scribner , of Wakefield. IV) Joseph Hall, son of Joseph Hall (3) , was baptized November 5, 1738, and resided at Bartlett, New Hampshire. According to the federal census of 1790, Joseph Hall was the head of the only family of this name in the town of Bartlett. He was in the Revolution in Captain Joseph Parsons' company. Children: 1. Joseph, born about 1760. 2. Dorcas. 3. Nathan. 4. Betsey. 5. Rev. Elias, mentioned below. 6. Josiah. 7. Polly. 8. Benjamin. (V) Rev. Elias Hall, son of Joseph Hall (4), was born at Falmouth. (Portland), Maine. August 16, 1777, and died at Jefferson, New Hampshire, October 16, 1851. He removed to Bartlett, New Hampshire, when young and was educated there in the district schools, and studied for the ministry in the Free Baptist denomination and was settled in Bartlett for many years. He married (first), about 1798, Hannah, daughter of Richard Tina, who died April 29, 1801, aged twenty-nine years. He married (second) Polly Hubbard, who died at Bartlett. February 5, 1813, aged twenty-eight years. He married (third) Hannah Seavey, born April 22, 1790, died August 26, 1839, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Cummings) Seavey, of Bartlett. He married (fourth) Sarah (Mead) Chase, widow. Elias Hall removed to Shapleigh. Maine, where he preached in the Free Baptist church. As a preacher he stood in the foremost ranks of his denomination ; as a man he was kindly, sympathetic and charitable, attracting many friends ; of large heart and high character. Children of Rev. Elias Hall: 1. Samuel, born at Bartlett, December 24. 1799, died at Meredith, New Hampshire, about 1870. 2. Ivory, born at Shapleigh, Maine, February 23, 1801, mentioned below. 3. Hannah , born at Shapleigh. October 15, 1803, died at Bartlett, New Hampshire, about 1860 ; married Barzilla Emery . 4. Dorothy, born at Shapleigh, January 6, « 8on , died November, 1880: married Isaac Nute. 5. Elias Merrill , born at Bartlett, New Hampshire. .March 3, 1808, married Clarinda Stillings, and had Charles Mitchell (married Melissa Hall ), Loami, Elmira. 6. Elmira, born May 17, 1810, died 1816. 7. James Hubbard , born at Bartlett, June 16, 1812, died at Gorham, Maine, about 1870; married Sarah Ann Hall, daughter of Judge Hall, and had Betsey, Sarah Ann, Mary, and James. 8. Timothy Emerson, born June 9, 1814. died about 1818. 9. Alvah , born April 10, 1816, died at Stamford, Connecticut, June 23, 1881 ; married, at New York City, Sophia E. Pettigrew, daughter of Robert and Helen (Boistreage) Pettigrew; children: i. Sophia Virginia, married William N. Beach; ii. Ana Byrd, married Albert C. Hall; iii. Alice, married William B. Duncan ; iv. Isabel McRae . MORE ABOUT THE OBED HALL FAMILY HERE Garland Ridge Cemetery and the so-called "Hall Maple Tree". As of 2019 it is about 190 years old. MORE DETAILS: (1757-1828)HALL, Obed, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Raynham, Bristol County, Mass., December 23, 1757; moved to Madbury, N.H., and thence to Upper Bartlett and engaged in agricultural pursuits; subsequently became an innkeeper; surveyor of highways in 1790; member of the board of selectmen 1791, 1798, 1800, 1802-1810, 1814-1819, and 1823; member of the State house of representatives in 1801 and 1802; appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Gov. John Taylor Gilman; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); member of the State senate in 1819; died in Bartlett, Carroll County, N.H., April 1, 1828; interment in Garland Ridge Cemetery, about two miles south of Bartlett; reinterment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present. New Hamphire Post Offices and Postmasters - 1816 Obed Hall 2d is also listed as a Bartlett Postmaster in 1816 and he earned $4.34. SOURCE: Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gwen Hurst - It seems Obed 1st was the uncle of this Obed. OBED HALL 2nd. 1795 -1873 Son of Hon. Ebenezer L. and Lydia (Dinsmore) Hall ; born, Conway, February 23, 1795 ; (Ebenezer was Obed 1st's brother) practiced, Bartlett and Tamworth ; died, Tamworth, May 21, 1873. In the war of 1812 Mr. Hall was in the military service for a short time, in a company of militia at Portsmouth. His early education was imperfect, and he studied law three years with Enoch Lincoln of Fryeburg, Maine, and two years with Lyman B. Walker of Meredith. He first set up in practice at Bartlett, and about 1820 changed his residence to Tamworth. He was representative in the legislature in 1840 and 1841, in which latter year he was appointed register of Probate for the new county of Carroll. That post he occupied ten years. In 1854 and 1856 he was a state senator.He was a lawyer of respectable acquirements, but preferred to give his time and attention to politics, which did not conduce to his legal progress nor to his pecuniary profit. He gave much attention to his farm, being partial to agriculture. He was public-spirited, and in private life benevolent and kindly.His first wife was Elizabeth Gilman of Tamworth, who bore him one daughter; his second was Caroline E., daughter of John Carroll of Maine. She left him a daughter, who outlived her father. SOURCE: The bench and bar of New Hampshire: including biographical notices ... By Charles Henry Bell I have an answer to the headstone question at the Garland Ridge Cemetery in Bartlett sent to me by Ruth Abbott: Hannah Seavey Hall: (b 22 April 1790 d 26 August 1839) Hannah Seavey was born in Bartlett NH in 1790. She was the daughter of Joseph Seavey and Abigail Comings. Hannah was 11 years old when her mother, Abigail died. She was“brought up” by her relative .Elijah Locke Seavey (1774 - 1860) Hannah married Elias Hall in 1813 (his third marriage) They had 10 sons and one daughter. She was a tall framed women with thick long brown hair. It was believed that consumption hastened her death. Her grave was near a little maple tree on one side of the cemetery. The maple is no longer small after all these years. Her headstone was a plain slab that her son Dudley and Joseph put there after they were men and earning money. Elijah Locke Seavey is buried nearby Hannah’s grave with both of his wives, Lucy Bassett and Mary D. Meserve Harriman. This picture was taken May 2010 courtesy of Ron Ward. This is in the Garland Ridge Cemetery in the north-west corner near the maintenance shed. This tree was "a small maple" in 1839, so it is approximately 180 years old. Too bad it couldn't tell us all the things it has seen during that time. MORE DETAILS: The following information was sent to me by Cheryl Hall: Subject: Mystery Question: Hannah Hall buried in Garland Ridge Cemetery Message: I hadn’t visited the Bartlett Historical Society web site in awhile so I was delighted to see that information on the Halls in Bartlett had been added to the site. After visiting Bartlett in the summer of 2007 for the purpose of genealogy research on the brothers, Obed, Ebenezer and Linus Hall, I discovered the Bartlett Historical Society on line, and I have been a member since that time. Over time I have had several excellent email conversations with Marcia Dolley and I have been delighted by the wonderful gifts of information that she has provided. There were two distinct Hall families in Bartlett. Joseph Hall, who appears in the 1790 census for Bartlett was a descendant of John Hall of Dover, NH (for which you have the Hall Ancestry posted). Obed Hall who also appears in the 1790 census for Bartlett was a descendant of Edward Hal l of Rehoboth, MA (I’ll see if I can put something together for you). Although some Hall researchers suspect that it could be possible, there is absolutely no proof that these two Hall families were related. When I visited Bartlett in 2007, I spent a fair amount of time at the Garland Ridge Cemetery viewing the headstones of the two Hall families buried there. I also found Hannah’s headstone and took a photo of it. I read the headstone as follows: Hannah wife of Elias Hall died Aug 26, 1839 AE 49 yrs Hannah was the third wife of Rev. Elias Hall. She was Hannah Seavey, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Cummings) Seavey, of Bartlett. Hannah would have been born in 1790. Research that I have found online since my visit to Bartlett supports that Hannah Seavey was the wife of Elias Hall, and that she died in 1839, not 1830. It was their son, (not Obed Hall’s son) Joseph Seavey) Hall who was instrumental in the building of the first Summit House on Mt. Washington in 1852. See: http://www.bartletthistory.org/bartletthistory/lodgingvillage.html#obedhall Thanks for providing such a great, and informative, web site! I look forward to additional family information appearing on your site as it becomes available. Also found Roland Hall is living in Keene and that particular branch of Halls' originally came to Bartlett from Maine and are not related to the earlier Halls' of Bartlett. OTHER INFORMATION IN THIS WEBSITE: Obed Hall's Tavern ; (1757-1828)HALL, Obed Joseph Seavey Hall of Bartlett was one of the most important participants in mid-nineteenth century events in Crawford Notch (or the White Mountain Notch as it was known in those days) and on Mt. Washington. Yet most people have never heard of him. Read the Story at the White Mountain History web site, HERE . ---------------- Find More About Obed Hall in our "Early Settlers Section: OBED HALL ET AL Sources: Incidents in White Mountain history - by Rev. Benjamin G. Willey https://www.ancestry.com › genealogy › records › levi-chubbuck_91882748 "The History of Carroll County", 1889, Georgia Drew Merrill brooklyncentre.com › trees › getperson Bartlett NH - In the Valley of the Saco - Aileen Carroll - 1990 Lucy Crawford's History of the White Mountains - circa 1860 REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF The State of New Hampshire • BOSTON - NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 15 COURT SQUARE 1902

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BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 James Frederick Howarth's Livermore Postcard Collection - 1919 Livermore Menu Introduction Timeline 1865-1965 Forever Livermore Article Sawyer River Railroad Saunders Family Nicholas Norcross Shackfords Owners Howarth Card Collection Lumbering Practices Legal Problems Peter Crane Thesis Bits and Pieces These postcards, sent during 1919 were written by James Frederick Howarth and sent home to his family in Roslindale Massachusetts. It would seem this was Mr. Howarth's new job and he wanted to let his family know what it was all about. He was the manager of the Livermore General Store. At about this time the Senior Saunders owner died and left his interests to his three daughters. The three daughters hired a Mr. Clinton Nash to take on the management of their interests. In these postcards there appears to be a vague familiarity with Mr. Nash. Perhaps Howarth and Nash were casual buddies...or perhaps not. Considering that these are postcards, the actual date of the picture is probably sometime before 1919. James Howarth - Page 1 James Howarth - Page 2 James Arrives at Sawyer River Station, Apr 30, 1919: Rails going into woods go to Livermore. This shows the chimney of the old Mill. The house furthest to right is where Mr. Howarth lived, next door is the Goulding House. Big Jim Donahue lived in the house to the left of chimney and the School is the last visible building. Looks like a tent pitched below the chimney. Apr 30, 1919: This card addressed to Howarth's son, Lawrence, asks "If he would like to go barefoot in this river?" The building on the left is "the dam house". Residence of Big Jim Donahue. 2 well dressed boys in foreground are barely visible. Donahue was General Manager of the Mills as well as the Town and served in nearly every capacity during his 40 years at Livermore. He died in North Conway in 1928 at age 60. Apr 30, 1919: The C.J. Saunders Engine 1. The lady riding on the back is one of the Saunders Sisters. This was the main source of transportation from Sawyer River Station. May 7, 1919: Mr Howarth referred to the Saunders Mansion as "The Forests". May 7, 1919: This card references Mr Nash going home. Five flushing bathrooms and Mr Howarth mentions where his room is, (On the right hand side you can see a penciled "x", indicating his room) or perhaps that is wishfull thinking? But, if he was buddies with Mr. Nash it may be possible. Clinton Nash was the manager of the entire operation in 1919, having been hired by the Saunders sisters after the death of their father. The Goulding House at Livermore. L.D. Goulding was a Justice and Selectman of Livermore. This page has shown the first seven cards that James sent home to his family. There are six more on the next page. James Howarth - Page 1 James Howarth - Page 2

schools at Bartlett NH 1800 to 2010 BARTLETT HISTORIC SOCIETY PO Box 514 - 13 School St. Bartlett, NH 03812 Schools In Bartlett. Page 2 Schools Page 1 Schools Page 2 Share Kaharl Our School District didn't hire slouchers. Check the credentials of Mr Kaharl who taught in Bartlett in the 1890's. CLASS OF 1899 Bowdoin: Edgar Alonzo Kaharl, son of Edgar Morton and Annie Clark (Lawrence) Kaharl, was born 23 Dec., 1870, at Newton, Mass. He prepared for college at Phillips-Exeter Academy and entered Harvard in the fall of 1889, where he remained for two years. For the next six years he was engaged in teaching at Conway and Bartlett, N. H., and at Fryeburg Academy. He entered Bowdoin as a Junior and received the degree of A.B. in 1899. At Bowdoin he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, received an English Composition prize and an honorary Commencement Appointment, and at graduation was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society. He at once returned to the profession of teaching which was to be his life work, and took up the duties of principal of the high school at Hanover, N.H . Here he remained for three years, when he went to the Portland High School , as instructor in Latin. After another three years he accepted the principal ship of the Brunswick High School , where he continued till 1911, giving the strength of his best years to educating the youth of his college town. In 1911 he resigned from the Brunswick school and went to Germany, where he spent a year as exchange teacher in English at the Oberrealschule, in Wiesbaden. Returning to America he became principal of the Harrington normal training school in New Bedford, Mass ., and in 1914 of the Fifth Street school in the same city, where he was at the time of his death, which occurred, 25 Aug., 1916, at his home in New Bedford, of angina pectoris, after an attack of acute indigestion. Mr. Kaharl was a Mason. He married, 22 Jan., 1910, at New Bedford, Mass., Carolyn M., daughter of Samuel Adams and Martha (Shaler) Atwood, who survives him without children. Thank you to Mikell Chandler for providing the details surrounding this 1958 photo and for naming most of the individuals. "It was not Halloween, it was Christmas. Our pageant that year was at the Odd Fellows Hall because of work on the schools in preparation for the new school. This was the first and second grade, taught by Lucille Garland. I know the kids in hats were reindeer and elves, but I have no idea what the rest of us were (myself included). I know we did a skit and played Christmas songs with our rhythm instruments (rhythm sticks, triangles, bells, and Michael Washburn played the drum. I remember that because Mrs. Garland asked "Michael" to play the drum and I heard "Mikell" and was very excited. It was not me, however, as she told me that "Girls didn't play the drums." I was heartbroken. It was my first experience with sexism...from a woman I adored. In photo: (front row) Michael Washburn, Dougie Eliason, Frank Trecarten, Steven Bellerose, Dean Creps, Buster Burke, Billy Bergeron (second row) Marilyn Clemons, Maureen Marcoux, Linda Burke, Cynthia Lee Garland, Lorraine Judd??, Dianne Dudley, Cathy Ainsworth (third row) Patty Kennedy, Mikell Chandler, David Kennedy, Mary Jane Davis, David Eliason, Ralph Clemons, Tony Schultz . pageant 1909 This school group photo from 1909 was sent in by Rick Garon who got it from his Grandpa's (Adalbert and Olive Garon) scrap book. Olive's maiden name was Drown and a headstone bearing that name is located in the Hill Cemetery . Rick says his grandma Olive is in the photo somewhere. The Junior Ski Program: 1939 - present Schools Page 1 Schools Page 2 JrSki In the winter of 1936, about the time that Carroll Reed was planning for his ski school, local notables including Dr. Harold Shedd, Noel Wellman and Chuck Emerson formed the Eastern Slope Ski Club to promote the area as a skiing destination, and to ensure that all local youths would be exposed to the new and growing sport. In the winter of 1939 the club started their Junior Program that allowed all local children to obtain ski equipment and take ski lessons; that program continues to serve all elementary school students in the Bartlett - Conway - area today. The photo below is early 1960's: Photo Location: Bartlett Elementary School - Bartlett Village - The program was held at The Cranmore Skimobile. Roger Marcoux recalls that his instructor at Cranmore was Peter Pinkham. Roger has now been an instructor for 20 years as of 2013, Eds note: That's called "Giving back what you got". Back row: Ray Kelley, Malcolm Tibbetts, Dave Eliason, Mikell Chandler, Johnny Head, Peggy Howard, Mary-Jane Davis, Roger Clemons, not sure of the last four. Next row down: Ed Luken, Wanda Abbott, John Nysted, Jay Nealley, ?, ?, Bobby Grant,not sure of the rest 3rd row down: Sumner Nysted, Ruth Russell, Jane Garland, Diane Dudley, Karen Haley,Rose Haley, Cindy Garland,?Maureen Marcoux? 4th row down: Frank Trecarten, Buster Burke, Evan Nysted, Ricky Tibbetts, Jerry Burke, ? , Ralph Clemons, Theresa Lemire 5th row down; David Ainsworth, ??, Joey Garland, Roger Marcoux, Doug Garland, Michael Grigel, Christine Cool, Doug Eliason 6th row down: Karen Grant, Connie Dudley, Jane Trecarten, Kathy Howard, Dwight Garland, Clifton Garland, Allen Eastman. Let us know who the others are if you know: Tell us here photo above courtesy of Alan Eliason Bartlett 8th Grade Class in the mid 1950's. Names Include Sanborn, Chappee, Way, Jefferson, Drew, Clemons, Hodgkins, Hill, Chandler. photo courtesy Maureen Hussey 8thGrade Schools Page 1 Schools Page 2